Laugh at me if you like but I am sitting here fuming at the DWP. I have just received my pension notification for 2015/2016. Nowhere do they refer to it as a "Pension", it is referred to as a "Benefit". Benefits are what people on the dole and single mothers and the sick get. My pension IS NOT a benefit, I made contributions for 40 odd years, it is a repayment of money they have taken off me for so many years, partly to pay the then pensioners.
Now a benefit scrounger.
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I agree 100%. However, it has been Government propaganda, gleefully assisted by the mass media, to get people to view benefit recipients as such.
I think it says something that benefits are now seen in such poor regard that the beneficiaries are immediately seen as scroungers. The system is not there to support these scrounging foreigners the DM et all will tell us, but to offer support to those in most need. It is not perfect but works pretty well and is something this country should be proud of.
snorri
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Don't sit and fume Compo, think of it this way, you are the Benefit.
Your words of wisdom and humour drawn from a lifetime of experience are of Benefit to all on CycleChat
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Plain envelope, usual address thanks.
Your words of wisdom and humour drawn from a lifetime of experience are of Benefit to all on CycleChat
.Plain envelope, usual address thanks.
Mad Doug Biker
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accountantpete
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It is a benefit. They blew your contributions on various wars, IT projects and British Leyland.
So now they have to rob some poor saps who are currently working to pay you £148 a week.
So now they have to rob some poor saps who are currently working to pay you £148 a week.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
It is a benefit. A benefit which is a part of the welfare state. That you had to make contributions to it doesn't change that.
And it's going up in April. I will be able to afford some new tyres for my bike.
accountantpete
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raleighnut
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It should be called a State Pension Entitlement and if they pay anything above the basic rate top it up with 'pension credit' which is a benefit, penny pinching nobbers the lot of em. 
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
DWP in theyre letters to people call it the state pension.. That sounds about right in my opinion. I can understand why the OP didnt like it being referred to as a benefit. And like someone else said, you wouldn't refer to a private pension as a benefit, although they are different in some ways.
