Now a benefit scrounger.

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Drago

Legendary Member
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.
 

Rafferty

Senior Member
Location
Essex
I'm with Compo on this one. As far as I'm concerned, when I get my pension, I will regard it as a weekly payout from my long term savings plan. A private pension isn't regarded as a benefit, it's a pension. Quid pro quo.
 

Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
Probably is---somewhere on the pension statement it will say benefits earned, accrued, owing or words to the effect. Stands back and waits for the flak:boxing:
 

welsh dragon

Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
I can't resist... One, two, three... Oh no it's not...
Your turn.


Methinks this thread is going downhill........fast Mr ID :laugh:

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.
 

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.
 

Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
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.
 

Tin Pot

Guru
PS its not a benefit it's a pension just like a private pension. No difference you saved money into the state pension so it is pension. Note the ones with there greedy grabbing NHS pension will call theirs a pension not a benefit. Hypocrisy to do so.

Ooh I don't know. Calling my pension a Private Benefit sounds quite classy!
 

Cuchilo

Prize winning member X2
Location
London
You know its not a benefit as you "collect your pension " . People on benefits call it " getting paid " :wacko:
 

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.
 
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