THE UK STATE PENSION - A THREAD
You must have known this was on its way .... and here it is!
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Amazing how many people suddenly โknow loads of peopleโ faking mental illness for benefits.
Research suggests these stories are socially contagious.
Also if someone was fraudulently claiming benefits, they probably wouldnโt be telling everyone down the pub.
PIP fraud is 0.2%.
@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 cafรฉ. Well worth it when you get to the top.
One of my favourite places for long, breezy walks โค๏ธ 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 โ๏ธ #Llandudno
Little nephew's first ice hockey game today as goalie (just a friendly) ๐ 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 ๐ ๐
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.
Et tu, USA ๐บ๐ธ 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.
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
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.
@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.
@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 .
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? ๐
Britain has a tax on instruments that donโt 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.
itโs 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