Now a benefit scrounger.
- Thread starter compo
- Start date
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
You can't win.
If you claim benefits you're a low life scrounger.
If you're a copper/firefighter etc and have a second job or business interest and thus pay sheet loads of tax you're a greedy bar steward.
It seems the only decent honest folk in this world are working full time and earning about £17,104.
If you claim benefits you're a low life scrounger.
If you're a copper/firefighter etc and have a second job or business interest and thus pay sheet loads of tax you're a greedy bar steward.
It seems the only decent honest folk in this world are working full time and earning about £17,104.
IDMark2
Dodgy Aerial
- Location
- On the Roof
I can't resist... One, two, three... Oh no it's not...
Your turn.
Shadow
member
- Location
- edge of the south downs
Why wait til you retire?!!
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Methinks this thread is going downhill........fast Mr ID
Another spanner in the works. mr DW will be getting his pension in a couple of weeks. We have a leaflet that gives us info on pension credit. It says for benefits information go to..... for penson info go to..... so regardless of what some people call it , benefit or not, it is still the state pension and thats what i will call it.
Wafer
Veteran
- Location
- Somerset/Devon border
Seems sad to me that a pension being associated with benefits is something people are ashamed of and angry at....
Simontm
Veteran
The state pension is a benefit - as in National Insurance contributions are not insurance contributions, they are assurance/tax contributions. They pay for the bill today, not tomorrow. No single person on a state pension is getting back the investment of their contributions over the years as that was spent the year each was paid.
Indeed, hopefully when I get to state pensionable age 66, another nine years yet, that there are enough people in work, paying their taxes so that I can get my state pension. I somehow think that there will not and as I also have a private pension along with many other people, that the state pension will become means tested so that those with personal/private schemes will not receive a state one. It would take a serious decision, and a brave one for a government to make, but I fear that it may come to it.
LCpl Boiled Egg
Three word soundbite
It is a benefit. Think yourself lucky you've lived long enough to get it. Many people don't make it to retirement age.
Tin Pot
Guru
Ooh I don't know. Calling my pension a Private Benefit sounds quite classy!
ayceejay
Guru
- Location
- Rural Quebec
I had to look it up to see if the word itself carries the stigma of scrounging and found this:
A payment made by a government agency or insurance company to qualifying persons A payment made by a government agency or insurance company to qualifying persons in time of need:
It is that last bit in time of need that rankles because after working for 40 years while contributing to a fund and then being retired because of your age that effectively stops your earning power the need is part of a plan, so what you are paid is part of that plan and your due.
A payment made by a government agency or insurance company to qualifying persons A payment made by a government agency or insurance company to qualifying persons in time of need:
It is that last bit in time of need that rankles because after working for 40 years while contributing to a fund and then being retired because of your age that effectively stops your earning power the need is part of a plan, so what you are paid is part of that plan and your due.
