Seems that this cowardly government is thinking up more ways to grab more money from us here Taxpayers, this time by bringing forward the proposal of raising the State Pension Retirement age to 68 in order to bring in a few more billion to the Treasury in order to help pay if the country’s crippling debt problem.
The original proposals was to increase the state pension age to 67 in 2028 and to 68 in 2039. But Treasury officials, the Bank of England and various think tanks want this latter option to be brought forward to the early-mid 2030s.
One reason for raising the retirement age for pensions is because of longer life expectancy compared to 40+ years ago. By raising the retirement age to 68 a few years earlier would be the Treasury saving anything up to £10bn in state pension payments.
Obviously for some ISAC cunters on here this may not affect them by the mid 2030s but its yet another crafty scheme for this government to force people to continue working before they’re “rewarded” with their state pension.
At the same time people on benefits and who have never worked in their lives could still end up being better off when they “retire” based on how totally fucked up our benefits system is.
And you get bet your bottom dollar that all those “billions” will be wasted on the usual suspects rather than paying off our massive debt caused by stupid fucking ministers and prime ministers.
Telegraph News Link
Nominated by: Technocunt
And on a slightly different tangent there’s this from Jeezum Priest
The thin end of the wedge.
Telegraph News Link
Now, a person who bought their house for peanuts, and flogged their nut off to make it a family home worth about £1m, as per a post on a recent nom, may find him/her self without a pension, because they were astute, hardworking and forward thinking.
That’s if twats like this have their way.
I’m all for multimillionaires getting no state pension, but I think very few would qualify for one anyway, as you actually have to contribute, in this country, to get one. Also, you actually have to apply to get it, which I doubt any of them would be arsed.
So essentially, this is not about the super rich, but people who got lucky, with a good house purchase, or a dabble in the stocks market, and not those who have deliberately evaded paying tax, yes Mrs. Sunak, amongst others.
How many times can you kick a dog, before he bites you on the arse?