State Pension Changing 1st August 2025

QrizB

FIREDreamer said:

Lots of this nonsense about …
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/waspi-women-secure-2950-payouts-historic-compensation-scheme-rolls-out-2025-1737521

Also in the Birmingham Mail:

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/waspi-women-issued-staggering-update-31943662

It's the same "journalist" again, James Rodger - and I'm assuming he actually exists and isn't an AI hallucination himself.

According to Muck Rack, his byline has appeared on 180,000 articles:

https://muckrack.com/james-rodger

He seems to have had a t~en year career, so that's 50 articles a day?

I don't have a LinkedIn account but his profile is here, if anyone wants to take a look:

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/james-rodger-4325348a

Or Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/jamesrodgerjournalist/about/

BlackKnightMonty

booneruk said:

Brie said:

 There's more cutting back of benefits going on so it would be an incredible long shot to increase them.  

Careful, don't poke the "Pensions aren't a benefit" crowd 

Agree with the others here - I've searched for any August 1st uplift, can't find a thing.

They are a benefit.

best wishes Gen X and Gen Z.

BlackKnightMonty

kempiejon said:

singhini said:

Marcon said:

singhini said:

Just to be clear - Pensions aren't a benefit   (had to get that in)

Don't think the government agrees with you, unless the legislation has changed in recent years:

'The State Pension is described in legislation as a “benefit” in order to root it within the existing social security framework as a statutory scheme paid out of monies in the National Insurance Fund.'
 https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/121267

It was a joke

In response to what Booneruk wrote

Careful, don't poke the "Pensions aren't a benefit" crowd  

Hence why i wrote "had to get that in"

Oh I know this one, I've paid in all my life so I've earnt it.

You didn’t pay in enough.

best wishes Gen X and Gen Z.

scroogemastermind

I saw the article on a website too - clostridia.net

Aretnap

QrizB said:

FIREDreamer said:

Lots of this nonsense about …
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/waspi-women-secure-2950-payouts-historic-compensation-scheme-rolls-out-2025-1737521

Also in the Birmingham Mail:

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/waspi-women-issued-staggering-update-31943662

It's the same "journalist" again, James Rodger - and I'm assuming he actually exists and isn't an AI hallucination himself.

According to Muck Rack, his byline has appeared on 180,000 articles:

https://muckrack.com/james-rodger

He seems to have had a t~en year career, so that's 50 articles a day?

Not unusual for journalists/"content creators" working for Reach titles and the pike to write many articles a day, especially if all they're doing is rewriting Martin Lewis tweets as clickbait.

50 a day is good going though - perhaps MuckRack's counting articles which have been posted on 20 Reach sites as 20 bylines each?

dasherman

This isn't Facebook 

HedgehogRulez

This is England

Qyburn

HedgehogRulez said:

This is England

That's the rest of the UK excluded.

QrizB

HedgehogRulez said:

This is England

THIS! IS! SPARTA!!!

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

twopenny

You youngsters don't have to worry, the government are doing their best to get rid of average pensioners.
No doctors here, surgery sold to a private company. Receptionist gives you a date for a blood test and you get the meds suggested from remote workers somewhere in the world spelled wrong, not related to your history and sent to a random pharmacy.
Add that to freezing at home.

I'm convinced it's to get the pension costs down by removing the pensioners.

But be warned youngsters, your turn will come 😉