Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by redtrummy

Our streets now have a St Georges flag high up on the lampposts- why? Think there are political and racial overtones. Reform councils so I have e-mailed our MP asking if she can influence there removal

Well the morons have been at it up here as well https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp...aberdeenshire/

[redtrummy]

Have we any police on the streets?

[garynortheast]

Originally Posted by redtrummy

Have we any police on the streets?

No, they're too busy arresting people for sitting down and holding placards urging people to stop killing each other.

[Sir Trev]

Palletline. Or rather, probably one of the local couriers in their network.

Luckily I was working from home today so did not wait in for no reason. The pallet of top dressing for my lawn did not show up, so my weekend plans have been scuppered. It's meant to be coming on Monday now, but that means my plans for my annual leave on Monday/Tuesday are also now scuppered as I'll have to do the jobs I should have been doing over the weekend. I had a rideout planned and some retail therapy. Barstewards.

[Bibio]

Thats a bummer Trev, I'm sure you'll find something else to do.

[garynortheast]

Lots of headlines talking about the one "benefit" to be excluded from DWP fraud checks. Turns out, they are talking about the state pension. Someone needs to remind the R Soles that the state pension is not a benefit, it's a pension scheme, into which millions of us have spent our working lives paying.

Benefit indeed.

[R1ffR4ff]

+10. I hate it when ill educated presenters on TV panels also say it's a ,"Benefit". Several years ago a financier on a program worked out if we had all paid our National insurance payments into a standard Bank deposit account from the working age of 16 to 65 we would all have had a pensions pot of £300,000 pounds and not £30,000!!!

Mismanagement of our money has cost most of use £270,000 pounds

[garynortheast]

Originally Posted by R1ffR4ff

+10. I hate it when ill educated presenters on TV panels also say it's a ,"Benefit". Several years ago a financier on a program worked out if we had all paid our National insurance payments into a standard Bank deposit account from the working age of 16 to 65 we would all have had a pensions pot of £300,000 pounds and not £30,000!!!

Mismanagement of our money has cost most of use £270,000 pounds

State pension is just £11,960 per year. Not a lot to live on when that is your sole source of income.

[R1ffR4ff]

Originally Posted by garynortheast

State pension is just £11,960 per year. Not a lot to live on when that is your sole source of income.

I know M8. That's all I have. I'm OK though as I'm single and bought my council house years ago. I'm frugal ( read tight-ar*e <grin>) and don't want for or expect much. Got rid of my car around 2018 so only got me SV650 and a bicycle and as I'm a guitarist I have all the guitars and gear I need and they aren't even expensive ones

[Luckypants]

I agree, state pension is bought and paid for throughout working life. It is not a 'benefit'. If you haven't paid in enough you don't get the full amount, so its not treated as a benefit at all by DWP and quite rightly.

It's more of the misinformation campaign to slowly strip us of the safeguards and financial security that generations before us won for all.

As to whether it should be part of fraud checks, we probably all agree it should be. Although I'm to honest thinking to see how it could be claimed fraudulently, unless someone has died.