All seeing eye
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All seeing eye
@TruthDoctor77
Seeing as Elon's keen on it, I'm just going to spit my truth
The right side of the argument Katılım Haziran 2023
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@LinWells81 @AnnelieseDodds Why do you think I'm telling a government MP?
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@TruthDoctor77 @AnnelieseDodds Tell that to the government, who are spaffing away billions on net zero & illegal immigrants. It often costs more to means test than to just pay the benefit. BTW, state pension is taxable unlike many other benefits
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From April, the Government is putting more money in your pocket to help with the cost of living 💷
Here’s what’s changing:
⚡ Around £150 off energy bills (7% drop) – applied automatically
💷 4% Pay rise for 2.7 million workers – up to £900-£1500 a year more
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@LinWells81 @AnnelieseDodds Then means test it and make it stringent. Stop millionaires getting a benefit they don't need. Very easy to spend spend spend when it's someone else's money.
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@TruthDoctor77 @AnnelieseDodds I don't think you really understand that for older pensioners, schemes were not available, certainly for women. Perhaps find out about people's life experiences before picking on a vulnerable group
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@misscjmilesx Your face looks really stunning in this photo
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@LinWells81 @AnnelieseDodds They may have worked but they haven't saved adequately. The two are not mutually inclusive. Relying on just the state pension for your retirement planning is ridiculous.
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@TruthDoctor77 @AnnelieseDodds Lots of people on benefits are doing the same. Massive amounts of money being spent on people who have never paid a penny into the system.Think you'll find the majority of pensioners have actually worked!
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@LinWells81 @AnnelieseDodds Fine then cut both. We need a smaller state and I'll vote for whoever promises it.
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@Phat_Zorst @PensionsMonkey You just wish that was the case. Make the state pension means tested then, cut the triple lock. I dont care. We as an aging nation need to spend less on the pension bill. Simple as.
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@TruthDoctor77 @PensionsMonkey Aren't you the lucky bot. You must get paid a fortune to disseminate lies.
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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…
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@LinWells81 @AnnelieseDodds It doesn't matter whether I could or couldn't. I think the onus is on me to provide in my retirement not the state. I'm paying 1600 a month into my pension while people who are going to rely on the state pension in a few years are out buying the latest I phone 🤷🏻♂️
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@TruthDoctor77 @AnnelieseDodds Perhaps see how much it is, especially the old rate, & see if you could live on it
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The Green Party now has the most fiscally responsible state pension policy.
City A.M.@CityAM
Farage slammed over pledge to keep ‘unsustainable’ triple lock pension bit.ly/4dpIYHY
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@Ellekl @notanerable @MiloStynes @PolitlcsUK Save more when you're working for retirement. Easy solution.
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@notanerable @MiloStynes @PolitlcsUK Which means that 2/3rds ARE NOT MILLIONAIRES & that is the majority of OAPS, some like me who worked FIFTY YEARS paying tax & NI all to be vilified for having a state pension at the end of it which is a hell of a lot less than the minimum wage at that !
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🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage formally commits to the state pension triple lock if Reform UK win the next election
"The people to whom pensions are being paid, certainly compared to a younger generation today, are those who have actually worked and paid into the system"
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@TimScottUK I pay 1600 a month into my public sector pension you clown
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Keeping the state pension triple-lock could be sustainable, if there’s savings to the benefits and public-sector pensions bill.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage formally commits to the state pension triple lock if Reform UK win the next election "The people to whom pensions are being paid, certainly compared to a younger generation today, are those who have actually worked and paid into the system"
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@CathyMo41926708 @miriam_cates @Itsallagame_ Save more for retirement when you're working rather than buying i phones, bmws and foreign holidays.
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You are incorrect. YOU are expected to pay “voluntary” contributions and these are taken from your pay/credits before you receive any monies.
To receive the full new State Pension (currently £230.25 a week for 2025/26), you typically need 35 qualifying years of National Insurance (NI) contributions or credits. A minimum of 10 years is required for any payment. Contributions are made through employment, self-employment, or credits.
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No one has ‘paid into’ the state pension. NI payments are spent by the government of the day, not put into a pot with your name on. Using these terms just perpetuates the myth that the state pension is a contributory scheme. It isn’t. It’s a non-means tested universal benefit paid for by current taxpayers.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage formally commits to the state pension triple lock if Reform UK win the next election "The people to whom pensions are being paid, certainly compared to a younger generation today, are those who have actually worked and paid into the system"
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@jfoster2019 @ValMThatcher @Chiefyruss @DrHoenderkamp Is that the 100 billion plus state pension bill? Going to need to find a lot of fraud and benefits savings compared to that you clown.
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@ValMThatcher @Chiefyruss @DrHoenderkamp If the benefits bill wasn’t so profligate ..
We’d probably be able to pay a higher State Pension !
The amount of corruption in the system also amounts to £billions !
There’s little oversight and proper checks !
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Why do people hate the elderly so much?
So tired of listening to the left and some on the right, demonising pensioners for daring to draw a pension, mainly after 40-50 years of hard graft and tax paying.
The same people don't want to discuss or demonise in the same way the 1 million 18-24 year olds not working/paying tax and only taking from the state.
Or the ballooning benefits bill for those who decide that their ailment means that they can just take from the state regardless of contribution.
Benefits should be an acute lifeline or safety net for the very small percentage of us who cannot work or need help to get back to work; not a lifetime activity for those who could but don't work.
Leave the elderly alone; £12,500 a year is hardly a bounty and they earned it.
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For those that appear to begrudge pensioners their state pension just remember that the majority of these people worked from the age of 16yrs until retirement paying their taxes.
Compare that to today when there are millions on benefits not paying any taxes but will still receive a state pension.
Also the state pension is well below the living wage & yet a lot of pensioners are expected to get by with no additional help unlike people on benefits.
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@DeBarsham 25% of pensioners are millionaires. Many are not living on the state pension. The state pension is a nice top-up that they spend on an extra holiday lol.
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State pension: £146 billion
Asylum seeker hotels: £2.1 billion
Sophie Corcoran@sophielouisecc
Young people Pensioners getting a pension they can live off of after working their whole damn lives - is not an attack on us It is the hotel dwellers and those that can’t be arsed to work - that we have to pay for that are the problem That is the actual unfairness here
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@Phat_Zorst @PensionsMonkey Try saving more when you were working. I pay 1600 a month into my pension.
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@PensionsMonkey Let's hear you say that when you're eligible to draw your state pension. If there even is such when you get to that age.
Try living off £900 a month and having to pay tax on it as well.
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@cragz_uk @PolitlcsUK The question is whether we should allow the state pension to continually gobble up more and more of the budget and the GDP of the country rather than investing in infrastructure that will help grow the economy
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@aquitainexox @miriam_cates Entitled to it but not 4.8% increase. Complete nonsense.
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@miriam_cates Our pensioners have grafted all their lives and paid into their state pension, YES they are entitled to it and it’s the Government’s responsibility to ensure they get it! Unlike many who’ve rocked up here and never paid a penny into the pot yet get it all for free
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Britain's socialist gerontocracy is alive and well.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage is set to announce Reform UK will keep the state pension triple lock [@thetimes]
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