Have you noticed it’s only the pensions side of the benefits bill they feel so strongly about and has to be cut. The other side they are quite happy to see continue to grow apace. Non pension benefit… (View Post)

Exactly. And in many parts of the country the healthy life expectancy is lower than 67 too. I retired at 59. I’m funding it myself. My end of life career break is not costing the state anything apart… (View Post)

Nice one 🥂 (View Post)

What you say is correct but it doesn’t help the perception when the govt makes it clear, via the HMRC website, that the state pension is a contributory benefit you earn through NI payments over time. (View Post)

Not so, but not far off now and it has been falling too. Quite a bit since 2012-14 ‘In more than 90% of areas the HLE was now below the state pension age of 66 or 67 and in one in 10 it was below 55.… (View Post)