UK pensioner heating allowance returns

[artschool]

this whole thing is a ponzi scheme. the younger generations will get nothing. there will be no pension, no winter fuel allowance and the NHS won’t exist. all of the money has been spent in advance by the baby boomer generation.

 

[Bavarianbrit]

this whole thing is a ponzi scheme. the younger generations will get nothing. there will be no pension, no winter fuel allowance and the NHS won’t exist. all of the money has been spent in advance by the baby boomer generation.

But they perhaps produced you if you are younger?

 

[artschool]

But they perhaps produced you if you are younger?

yes i am the generation below the boomers. it should be illegal to borrow against the work of future generations but here we are regardless.

 

[Flash G 74]

You do get the rises in many countries all EU but for US Aus Canada I believe it stagnates at the date you left which to me is mean.

Hello, OK thanks, I was only going by someone who retired to Spain and still claimed full pension

 

[Flash G 74]

this whole thing is a ponzi scheme. the younger generations will get nothing. there will be no pension, no winter fuel allowance and the NHS won’t exist. all of the money has been spent in advance by the baby boomer generation.

Hello, Depends how younger but classified as a Boomer my Sons will not have the same retirement style and will need to work till 67 ?, it is the young generation coming up now that will take the hit as you describe,

 

[Bavarianbrit]

My gran had never paid into a NI as she was 1887 born but the government brought in pensions I do not know when that was and she got it so the first pensioners lived off the working group, it had to be done so and since then has always worked that way.

 

[Jagare]

I've never received a UK winter fuel allowance. Neither do I need one. Back in the early 60s when I was at school, we learnt that the NI contribution was for the health service, unemployment benefit and pension.
It's not us Boomers fault that successive government have wasted the money. I worked in the UK more than the required years to get a full state pension. I also get a Part of the Swedish state pension, again that I worked for.
When I had dependent children and a mortgage I drove banger cars. Never covered myself in tats, drank very little or gambled my money away. One trip to the US in the late 70s to visit relatives was the extent of my travels abroad. Scrimping to get by for so many years.
The stalking I had for many year and the shooting I've had I got through, beating and dog work and helping keepers.
So you will have to excuse me if I feel less than charitable to the x,y,z generations.
I can only suggest that they keep working hard to keep paying for my pension .

 

[Jagare]

Hello, Depends how younger but classified as a Boomer my Sons will not have the same retirement style and will need to work till 67 ?, it is the young generation coming up now that will take the hit as you describe,

In the words of Windsor Davis, Oh dear , how sad, never mind.

 

[Bavarianbrit]

I never figured out why women who have lived longer statistically than men but could collect their pension 5 years earlier than men. Then it changed and they were pumped up to 65 rather than all genders getting it at 62.5 years which would have seemed fairer to me.

 

[JockStalk]

I never figured out why women lived longer statistically than men .

I think the reason is because they want to (from a married man’s perspective of course)

 

[Bavarianbrit]

I think the reason is because they want to (from a married man’s perspective of course)

Just edited my last remark to make it clearer, thanks.

 

[maximus otter]

I happened to have met a German woman in 1980 (remember pre brexit?

Does Brexit mean that we can’t marry German women? Is Angela Merkel finally safe from me?

maximus otter

 

[FrenchieBoy]

Does Brexit mean that we can’t marry German women? Is Angela Merkel finally safe from me?

maximus otter

If you want her I suspect that many of the Germans would say "You're more than welcome to her"!

 

[sikamalc]

Any further such language and its a ban. PM sent.

 

[Flash G 74]

Hello, Depends how younger but classified as a Boomer my Sons will not have the same retirement style and will need to work till 67 ?, it is the young generation coming up now that will take the hit as you describe,

Hello, Its the younger generation now that looks like will be worst off when it come to future pensions and benifits, Labour have just announced a back track on PIP but claimants where there must be many young disabled in our country needing to claim in future what will it be like for them ?,

 

[Bushcrafter]

I feel the same way when I hear the younger gen’s bleeting into their smartphones about the interest rate on their mortgage……Try 12%!

Suck it up buttercups!

 

[timbrayford]

Some of these people will have payed taxes and NI all their working lives….
Why should they receive nothing?
KB.

Because once they leave the UK they no longer pay our taxes, be it direct or indirect tax

 

[timbrayford]

this whole thing is a ponzi scheme. the younger generations will get nothing. there will be no pension, no winter fuel allowance and the NHS won’t exist. all of the money has been spent in advance by the baby boomer generation.

Gifted away in foreign aid and handouts to the common market!

 

[artschool]

Gifted away in foreign aid and handouts to the common market!

that as well!

 

[kenbro]

Because once they leave the UK they no longer pay our taxes, be it direct or indirect tax

Tim,
I talking about indigenous people who spend all their working life here and then, when they retire they move somewhere with a climate that suits them more.
Ken.