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@annaroseridgway @sophielouisecc Depends on your earnings. The more you earn, the more NI contributions. OK give me back 45 years contributions 🤷🏼‍♀️

@mariathom60 @sophielouisecc That’s a private pension - ‘contributing’ is just paying your taxes. The average pensioner receives 1.9x more than they ‘contributed’

5000 people PER DAY are signing up for ‘disability benefits’ Yet you want to yell at poor Joan who has worked for 40 odd years non stop for getting a pension that’s minimum wage and below most of Europe Get out of here

@KiplingChrist @SandyofSuffolk Each generation has it‘s issues. Even though the equal pay act was 1975, it had to be reinforced in 2010 because employers were not enforcing this fairly. Retirement for women was brought in line and extended, with little notice.

@SandyofSuffolk @mariathom60 Yeah just increase it in line with inflation or choose earnings - take your pick of one metric but the highest of three metrics means every year working people have to have tax increases to pay for this and over time it eats up the whole budget.

The younger generation haven't thought this one through: "Sell your 3 bed house grandma, buy a studio flat and live off the sale proceeds instead of getting a state pension". Then young entitled grandson won't inherit his grandma's half a million pound house but a grotty fifty grand flat that he can't sell but is liable for the huge monthly management fees. And grandma has spent all the sale proceeds of her big house. It's called karma. 😜🤣

@annaroseridgway @sophielouisecc It is a contributory scheme, therefore unlike a state benefit.

@mariathom60 @sophielouisecc How is state pension not a type of benefit?

@KiplingChrist @SandyofSuffolk We are never going to agree, are we, so perhaps we should agree to disagree. I find it disappointing that the younger generation blame the older generation for so much when perhaps your ire should be targeted against the previous Governments.

@mariathom60 @SandyofSuffolk We need to do that as well. It is not an either/or. Pensioner benefits are half of welfare though. Saying you won’t touch it is not serious and the most obvious change is to remove the triple lock.

@KiplingChrist @SandyofSuffolk You could focus your anger against all those unworthy benefit claimants and lobby for the Government to bring public sector pensions in line with private pensions. The old chestnut of not receiving pay in line with private sector is well out of the window.

@mariathom60 @SandyofSuffolk But that applies across both generations. There are always some that have difficulties but we are loading the current generation with huge costs that their parents did not need to pay. This makes it even harder for the young to save.

@KiplingChrist @SandyofSuffolk I am not saying I don’t, what I am saying is that not everyone had the benefit of a decent pension scheme or had the means to save much. You are giving your argument a broad brush approach. It is disingenuous of you.

@mariathom60 @SandyofSuffolk A lot had defined benefit schemes which we don’t have now. They had dividend tax relief which brown got rid of. House prices were lower as a multiple of incomes. If you get to 65 and have no savings that is irresponsible. You would say that of young people

@WorkElizab Unfortunately that door has slammed firmly shut. We now have a selfish, entitled, disrespectful, rude society, (not all, thankfully!)

What do you think?

@stylist_que_2 I think we are all holding our breath that he is found by the US recovery teams. May he be returned safely to his family 🙏

A U.S. Army pilot is missing in Iran tonight, and somewhere in the darkness, he’s alone, holding on, fighting to survive—please keep him in your prayers. 🇺🇸🙏 I don’t have to agree with every decision made, but I will never turn my back on those who wear the uniform. They carry fear, pressure, and sacrifice that most people will never understand. I will never stand with anything that mocks their struggle or turns their pain into propaganda.

@KiplingChrist @SandyofSuffolk Previous generations working in the private sector, unlike public sector, did not receive enhanced pensions and perhaps with 14%, 10% interest rates on mortgages and bringing kids up perhaps keeping head above water was the priority. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@mariathom60 @SandyofSuffolk You should not be living on it alone. It was never designed to do that. It is meant to make sure you have the bare minimum. People need to supplement it with private savings.

@KiplingChrist @SandyofSuffolk Unfortunately difficult to live on State Pension, it only equates to half a living wage based on a 35 hour week. We have the lowest state pension is Europe.

@SandyofSuffolk We don’t want to take away your pension just for you not to have 5-10% annual increases funded by us. Increase it by earnings alone. If my earnings go up by 2% so does your pension. May also focus minds on increasing incomes and economic growth.

@OicWhour @SandyofSuffolk Trust me, this is very much the minority! 😂

@SandyofSuffolk i was reading the other day about an old woman sold her house when her husband died and now just lives on cruise ships lol

@SandyofSuffolk love this! 👍🏼😂

@annaroseridgway @sophielouisecc State pension is NOT a benefit and with some of the woke disabilities these days and the ability to work the system, hard to sympathise with some of the claimants.

@sophielouisecc Pensioners still make up 55% of the benefits payouts - who is more deserving, someone who is unfortunately not able to work due to a disability, or Joan who probably owns a home and should have spent her 40 odd years of working building a bit of savings.

@sophielouisecc It’s not even minimum wage. Based on 35 hour week, State pension equates to nearly half the minimum wage 👍🏼

@Harry1977837 @sophielouisecc The rest are not that far behind. This Government were wrong to cave into the back benchers. The system needs a total overhaul.

@mariathom60 @sophielouisecc Mainly those over 50 years of age! Wonder why 🙄

Some families on universal credit are getting the equivalent take home pay of a £71k salary for doing the square root of fuck all Do you really think I’m going to be angry at pensioners getting a pension that’s less than most of Europe - that they have earned No - no im not They aren’t the problem

@StephanProwell @dougiebrimson Food for thought; the State Pension is the lowest in Europe which in monetary terms is practically half the living wage (living wage over £23k for a 35 hour week) Could you survive on that?

@dougiebrimson Sure, it only there was one really. They’re all establishment shills out to line their own and their mates pockets, tories, reform, Labour, more of the same shite

As the recipient of a state pension, could I thank all those still working (including myself) for collectively paying their taxes to fund it. Just as I did for your parents and/grandparents during my lengthy, and ongoing, working life. Something I did on the understanding that the system would continue to function, as it does. That’s how it works. 👍

@Blenderfckus @ein_gnu @EtelaSzabo @VolodyaTretyak @grok 🤡🤡

@mariathom60 @ein_gnu @EtelaSzabo @VolodyaTretyak @grok appalling humans support USSA proxy banderite nazis

Can you name at least one action taken by Trump that was harmful to Russia and beneficial for Ukraine since his second term began? 🤔

@Blenderfckus @ein_gnu @EtelaSzabo @VolodyaTretyak @grok Comparisons apart, you are an appalling human, end of!

@mariathom60 @ein_gnu @EtelaSzabo @VolodyaTretyak @grok LOL some americunt has an opinion. Worry about your own violent warmongering shithole hypocrite. you're too dumb to grasp that I used it in comparison to Gaza. another USSA war crime. Besides most civilians were on the ethnic Russian side caused by the Banderites.

@Blenderfckus @ein_gnu @EtelaSzabo @VolodyaTretyak @grok 15,360 civilians killed, (to date) over the last 4 years is nothing!!!! what sort of animal are you, obviously a Russian animal.

@ein_gnu @EtelaSzabo @VolodyaTretyak @grok "Russia hitting urban centers. Systematic bombing of maternity hospitals" LOL Who says that the Kiev Independent? And 15,000 civilians killed over 4 years is nothing. Gaza alone has 75000 in not even half the time. That's the difference when you target populations.