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@NJM71 Well give back my 40 years of NI contributions then

It literally says on the screenshot that the state pension is based on qualifying years which include credits. It's not based on "contributions". I've explained this a thousand times and honestly don't understand why some people don't seem to get this.

@Keir_Starmer Fuck off wanker

Good Friday is a day of reflection, as Christians remember Christ’s sacrifice – and the values of compassion and hope that are at the heart of Easter. I wish Christians everywhere a peaceful day.

@Cal_III And labour allowed millions to enter the country taking jobs, housing, services depressing wages and i bet ypu vote Labour

I’ve got pals who’ve completed masters at uni and can’t land jobs, housing has never been more expensive; highest tax burden since ww2. But it’s ok. Reform have thrown a tea party for the wealthiest generation in history.

@ReemAmirIbrahim Cut economic migrants cut benefits fixed

If you want to keep the pension triple lock, you want higher taxes. You can’t have one without the other.

@WorldByWolf The country is paying £200 billion on work shy scroungers why not cut their benefits

Boomers had the single best standard of living across their entire lives than any generation in history. Free university, affordable housing, the NICE economic years, and now the triple lock on pensions. They are, in aggregate, the single most selfish generation ever. I can’t afford to own my own house, I have massive university debts, I live in a time of high youth unemployment and stagnant economic growth, and @RobertJenrick now has the temerity to suggest I want to pay more in tax to fund gold plaited pensions for the richest generation ever. I know exactly how Reform came to the decision to keep the triple lock. Farage is actually instinctively against it but he’s seen the polling that shows getting rid of the triple lock would lead to a flood of voters going to the Tories or Labour. I hope Restore Britain actually have the guts to level with people and say we can’t afford to maintain the triple lock and instead commit to some combination of raising the retirement age, capping the rate of increase, introducing a degree of means testing, and actually in the long term getting the government out of the pensions business and shifting that responsibility onto employers and employees.

@blaiklockBP And they've worked hard all their lives.. I started with nothing worked and saved

Over-55 homeowners have £3.4 trillion of property wealth. £321,213 per household. 76% have no mortgage. 1.6% of under 40's own a house with no mortgage.

@BWoodzy99 @JulieBaynham3 Hay wanker ive paid in for 40 years thats 40 years of my money give it back then

@JulieBaynham3 Lets do all of that. But its all nothing compared to the cost of the state pension.

Your taxes (including NI) didnt pay into a state pension they paid for day to day spending, you have no automatic right to one The current non-means tested triple lock pension is both unaffordable and immoral. Time to get a grip.

@BWoodzy99 It's time to stop benefits Economic migrants Privatisation of the NHS Why should a few keep paying for the many who do fuck all in life

@nickareay @dave43law @lunaperla Dave and his wife are on benefits! Let that sink in Now do you feel more angry

@dave43law @lunaperla Piss off - I’ve paid in for over 35 years. Just because I’ve worked all my life and saved, why should I be penalised and my money given to wastrels, the work shy or migrants who have contributed nothing.

The time has come for 'state pension' to be means tested Removal of those 3 million from the equation at the very least would free £36billion to fund others

@dave43law Yeh id agree with means testing! Work shy wankers like you Dave living on benefits not contributing would be tested. You would only qualify by what you have paid in. In your case nothing Get a job lazy sod

@dave43law I crossing is too many When you going to get a job and stop scrounging a living of those who work ?

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@DominicMcGregor @MissLauraFong Alan Sugar will have contributed far more than most so why is Alan sugar not entitled to receive from what he has paid in to ?

@MissLauraFong Well done, still doesn’t mean Alan sugar getting a state pension is smart. I’m big believer in those that need help should get it. But the triple lock is a fiscal noose which this country is committing too

The triple lock was introduced to drag pensioners out of poverty. It’s served that purpose. But when 55% of property in the UK is owned by 60 year olds. Almost £4 trillion of asset value. That demographic now knew less support. The only reason why… It wins votes. Wake up, the triple lock is destroying the futures of young people.

@DominicMcGregor 40 years of NI contributions effectively im paying for my own pension Now fuck off and get a job

@FCDOGovUK @YvetteCooperMP And nothing. Your fucking useless

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@PensionsMonkey The UK has one of the lowest state pensions, probably because so much of the bloated welfare state is being used to fund foreign claimants, 12.2m migrants since 1997, Motability, 25% of children now wrongly classified as having disabilities - the list is endless.

No financially unsustainable benefits will. Pensioners were and many remain workers and are taxed on their pensions via any additional income. Pensioners don’t even receive a living wage and it’s is the lowest pension in Europe. What needs to be addressed is the unproductive, those who don’t contribute just do nothing but take, it is the ever expanding benefits bill that has to stop.

@PensionsMonkey A transfer of wealth. Ive paid in 40 years the transfer is from me to me same as any other worker. Now lets talk about economic migrants, those on permanent sick leave, PIP, ADHD £200billion paid to those who are not contributing

Left unchecked, the Triple Lock will consume the entire known universe, it is an unsustainable transfer of wealth from people in work to the retired. It has to stop. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

🚨The state pension & triple lock is the hot topic of the day — but almost no one is discussing what actually happened and why we’re in this mess. Instead, governments are dividing older and younger generations with perverse gaslighting. Here’s the truth: National Insurance was explicitly sold for generations as a contributory scheme. You paid your “stamps” to build entitlement to your state pension — exactly like road tax was introduced and meant to fund the Road Fund for building and maintaining roads. Both started with a clear promise: pay in for a specific purpose. Then governments quietly broke the ring-fencing/promise. Road hypothecation ended in 1937. NI became mostly pay-as-you-go — today’s workers funding today’s pensioners, with surpluses spent on the priorities of the day (NHS, welfare, whatever suited the government). Why are we here now? • Collapsing birth rates since the 1960s + longer lifespans. • Mass immigration that failed to fix the worker-to-retiree ratio as promised. • Decades of political short-termism: treating the National Insurance Fund like a slush fund instead of properly ring-fencing or investing it for the future. See Singapore for the gold standard. Now the gaslighting ramps up: “No one paid into a pot.” “It’s just a transfer from poorer young to wealthier old.” “The triple lock is unaffordable.” This is classic deception by government. They collected contributions under one set of expectations, spent the money elsewhere, then rebranded the promise when demographics caught up. Pensioners who worked 40-50 years and upheld their side of the intergenerational contract are suddenly the villains. It’s perverse. Instead of admitting “we broke the funding model,” politicians pit generations against each other. The young aren’t subsidising the old out of nowhere — they’re paying into the same broken system their elders did. Honour the existing promises to those who already paid in. Cut the real waste first (illegal migration costs, foreign aid, Net Zero subsidies, welfare bloat). Then reform properly for the future: move towards individual accounts with actual investment and returns — like Singapore’s CPF. Stop the divisive nonsense. Fix the root causes instead of rewriting history and turning the country against itself. Feel free to engage👇🏽 #TripleLock #StatePension

@jeremycorbyn No refugee. They are economic migrants here taken hand outs Deport the lot

No refugee underfunded a hospital. No refugee closed a school. No refugee gave tax breaks to the rich. Instead of scapegoating refugees, let's tackle the real problem: an unjust economic system that concentrates wealth in the hands of the few.

@ToryWipeout Creating more jobs

Reform have promised to reverse the minimum wage increase. Just think about that.