Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[embee]

Regardless of the rights or wrongs of the triple lock, it's just a classic example of the government's cavalier attitude (which comes from the top). A law or a pledge or a principle is absolute .................... until it isn't.

Remember the 0.7% GDP foreign aid statutory obligation ?

We simply cannot trust anything they say any more.

[Luckypants]

They've been making noises about getting rid of triple lock all through the Johnson administration and Theresa May before him. Just when the triple lock is biting to make an impact for those whose only income is the state pension, the Tories decide that having warm and fed pensioners is a bad thing.

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by embee

Regardless of the rights or wrongs of the triple lock, it's just a classic example of the government's cavalier attitude (which comes from the top). A law or a pledge or a principle is absolute .................... until it isn't.

Remember the 0.7% GDP foreign aid statutory obligation ?

We simply cannot trust anything they say any more.

Exactly, words mean whatever they want them to mean , or they will find some excuse saying circumstances have changed to try and justify why they don't have to stick to their pledges !

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Luckypants

They've been making noises about getting rid of triple lock all through the Johnson administration and Theresa May before him. Just when the triple lock is biting to make an impact for those whose only income is the state pension, the Tories decide that having warm and fed pensioners is a bad thing.

Thank goodness I made other arrangements with a private pension. Another thing that annoyed me is the increase in pension age for women. My wife is younger than me and can't draw her pension until she is 67.

[Luckypants]

I'm happy that women's pension age is the same as for men. Equality in all things.

I don't understand the WASPI movement's beef entirely, but if its proved (and I think it may have been?) they've been wronged fair enough their pension age should not move. However, my view is that the equalisation of men's and women's state pensions has been widely advertised as has the move to increase state pension age - so saying you didn't know is not a valid argument.

My sister in law was affected and "didn't know" but admitted to not listening or reading to pensions news for years. She never reads official letters either. She was about 6 months away from 60 when she found out at a family meal where retirement came up, it was a hell of a shock to her she had to work a few more years.

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Luckypants

I'm happy that women's pension age is the same as for men. Equality in all things.

I don't understand the WASPI movement's beef entirely, but if its proved (and I think it may have been?) they've been wronged fair enough their pension age should not move. However, my view is that the equalisation of men's and women's state pensions has been widely advertised as has the move to increase state pension age so you agree with raising men's pension age as well !- so saying you didn't know is not a valid argument. I didn't realise about women's 67 age until I was near my pension age

My sister in law was affected and "didn't know" but admitted to not listening or reading to pensions news for years. She never reads official letters either. She was about 6 months away from 60 when she found out at a family meal where retirement came up, it was a hell of a shock to her she had to work a few more years. I bet it was

please see comments above in colour

[Luckypants]

I didn't actually say I agree with it, just that it's widely known.

[Sir Trev]

ITV Hub. Piece of garbage. Hate it, hate it, hate it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Every time we try to watch something it allows us to watch around half of it and then refuses to play the rest. Arrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhh.........

I did not start recording Lucan in time so we're using it to try and watch episode one and it will NOT let us watch the last quarter of an hour. Resetting everything has no effect so flip it - well have to try again tomorrow.

Piece of utter garbage.

[Kenzie]

Channel 4 app is like that too. It runs the adverts and then nothing...

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[SV650rules]

Originally Posted by Luckypants

I'm happy that women's pension age is the same as for men. Equality in all things.

I don't understand the WASPI movement's beef entirely, but if its proved (and I think it may have been?) they've been wronged fair enough their pension age should not move. However, my view is that the equalisation of men's and women's state pensions has been widely advertised as has the move to increase state pension age - so saying you didn't know is not a valid argument.

My sister in law was affected and "didn't know" but admitted to not listening or reading to pensions news for years. She never reads official letters either. She was about 6 months away from 60 when she found out at a family meal where retirement came up, it was a hell of a shock to her she had to work a few more years.

The WASPI thing was the result of an EU directive in 1978 that ordered member countries to equal up the social security payments received by men and women - the main one being pensions, so it took UK from 1978 till about 1995 to actually implement the law in UK to even up the pension ages starting in 2010, before that women had been 'more than equal' with pension at 60 and on average a longer life than blokes.....


https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-cont...ISSUM%3Ac10907


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