Nic Millar

Pensions, GIFs, hiking, Lake District, and some other stuff. Opinions are my own 🏞🏞

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

THE UK STATE PENSION - A THREAD

You must have known this was on its way .... and here it is!

Please spare a second to retweet and add any comments 🙏

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[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

Amazing how many people suddenly “know loads of people” faking mental illness for benefits.

Research suggests these stories are socially contagious.

Also if someone was fraudulently claiming benefits, they probably wouldn’t be telling everyone down the pub.

PIP fraud is 0.2%.

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

@CashQuestions I"ve been to the mines, walked up last year but was a bit short on time this afternoon! It's a great walk, stopping off at that little café. Well worth it when you get to the top.

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

One of my favourite places for long, breezy walks ❤️ the views from the top of The Great Orme are amazing (walking down is more enjoyable, tram ride up!). Still sunny and warm out even now ☀️ #Llandudno

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

I like this pic a lot - chair on the beach, sun's shining, nice breeze, dog's happy, human's happy (I hope). Peaceful ☀️ #Llandudno

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

@CashQuestions They're absolutely brutal 🤣 I've seen more than a few people get divebombed - it's a mistake you only make once!

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

Llandudno seagulls can smell food a mile away and they take no prisoners 🦅 you're risking your life walking around outside with food 🍟

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

Little nephew's first ice hockey game today as goalie (just a friendly) 🏒 it's amazing how they all zip round the ice and he absolutely loved it. He was dancing a bit in goal to kill time - we all know goalies are usually the nutty ones 😂 😍

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

@toady My post doesn't say otherwise.

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

This is what it sounds like to me:

Older people: reduce the state pension age and I'll free up my job tomorrow!

Younger people: who pays for that?

Older people: not me - who cares.

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

Et tu, USA 🇺🇸 a fascinating insight into an all too familiar state pension / social security 'problem'. Sounds a bit like SERPS (but a quick skim is all I can manage for tonight). Interesting read though.

[Tax Foundation @TaxFoundation]

By 2035, the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Trust Fund, or the Social Security Trust Fund, will be depleted, and current payroll taxes will only be able to fund 83 percent of the scheduled benefits.

Read more: https://t.co/MxFR32py1P

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

@DarrenJohnson66 If people have the option to semi- retire or retire in their 50s, I'd say they've already won.

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

What's with the current obsession that people over 55, 60 should retire? Is somebody offering to pay for people to do that because I'd guess most can't afford to. Also, thinking a 21 year old could waltz into a job vacancy created by a 60 year old retiring is (mostly) nonsense.

[LBC @LBC]

“I had a mad thought: should everyone over 60 just retire?”

@RachelSJohnson thinks boomers could do something to tackle youth unemployment.

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

@DarrenJohnson66 Which obviously suited your circumstances, so that's great. You weren't forced out.

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

@mickeyhynes Compulsory retirement age was abolished, what, 15 years ago. If a 70 year old wants/needs to carry on working, they shouldn't be made to feel like they're being pushed out. The problem is a lack of jobs, not older people stopping younger people finding one.

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

I'm 54 so if somebody is offering to fund my retirement from 55, give me a shout 🫶

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

For a whole week 🙌 I can't think of a better Friday feeling (apart from two weeks off) ☀️

[Peter Brown @PeterBr27295261]

@AWPRCO As a dog owner myself, I'd have to say that people with their dogs off-lead in public places are some of the most entitled wankers you'll ever meet .

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

@rich_rdctd I don't see why they need to be labelled as either.

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

A lot of older women didn't work and didn't contribute via national insurance, people with caring responsibilities or people too sick/disabled to work can't contribute via NI. What happens to people who can't work for 40 years straight - let them starve? 👀

[Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK]

Jacob Rees-Mogg: "We basically want to stop benefits for people who have never contributed via national insurance..."

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

@BloodybushEdge That's not true.

[Nic Millar @NJM71]

Huge chunk in National Insurance right there, "the Cinderella of taxes". The unseen tax (not a contribution to state pension).

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Britain has a tax on instruments that don’t exist any more.

It raises no revenue. It never applies. It was meant to be abolished this year, but wasn't.

It still exists.

Anyway, I made a chart of all 85 UK taxes.

[lili @stereoliv]

it’s really annoying me how these posts are being worded like the issue is young people refusing to work and not that there are no jobs and no one will hire young people