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Post by neworleanstokie on Jul 20, 2017 21:47:59 GMT
Full pension here in the US is $2,700/month (GBP2,100/month) at 67. I can understand how you didn't know what was happening with your pension in the UK as the access to information is non-existent other than snail mail. Amazingly here you can log into your social security account and see all your contributions and benefits. You can here nowadays, but we are talking about changes that happened in the 1980's to just about all public employee pension contributions to the 2nd state pension. Public employees will usually receive a pension of 2/3 final year salary as well as the state pension, depending upon their contributions. I stand corrected - I can't access from outside the UK. That said the UK pension is a pittance.
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Post by Billybigbollox on Jul 20, 2017 21:54:19 GMT
You can here nowadays, but we are talking about changes that happened in the 1980's to just about all public employee pension contributions to the 2nd state pension. Public employees will usually receive a pension of 2/3 final year salary as well as the state pension, depending upon their contributions. I stand corrected - I can't access from outside the UK. That said the UK pension is a pittance. Yes we are too busy giving £14 billion away in foreign aid a year to worry about our elderly.
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Post by essexstokey on Jul 20, 2017 22:00:10 GMT
I stand corrected - I can't access from outside the UK. That said the UK pension is a pittance. Yes we are too busy giving £14 billion away in foreign aid a year to worry about our elderly. and another 1.5 billion to the dup
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Post by lawrieleslie on Jul 21, 2017 6:21:22 GMT
I will get the full state pension of around £700 a month with this years 2.5% increase Northy. What I won't get is the second state earnings related pension which is still applicable to those who paid in because apparently I opted out in the seventies and I didn't pay enough NI to be entitled. If I had not opted out I would be on around £900 a month. I suppose as a youngster in the 70s money was better in my pocket as beer tokens than paying additional NI. Allegedly many public servants were opted out because of their own public pension schemes. The thing is you probably didnt opt out, the government changed it and opted you out. Wow. How do I find out Northy? Certainly don't remember any of it tbh.
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Post by Northy on Jul 21, 2017 6:28:38 GMT
The thing is you probably didnt opt out, the government changed it and opted you out. Wow. How do I find out Northy? Certainly don't remember any of it tbh. www.change.org/p/all-veterans-of-hmforces-armed-forces-national-insurance-contributionsThere's a petition going on it, and I also believe that the British Legion are onto it. I think you have to go onto the government gateway and see what NI you have contributed etc. If you have a look at some of the comments below, the first one George Bland, I was on the Nottingham with him
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Post by rat on Jul 21, 2017 14:00:27 GMT
Wow. How do I find out Northy? Certainly don't remember any of it tbh. www.change.org/p/all-veterans-of-hmforces-armed-forces-national-insurance-contributionsThere's a petition going on it, and I also believe that the British Legion are onto it. I think you have to go onto the government gateway and see what NI you have contributed etc. If you have a look at some of the comments below, the first one George Bland, I was on the Nottingham with him Scrounging benefits and helping others to screw the system I see Northy. Tut tut. Come the revolution matey.....
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