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[mosssideblue]

You forgot about working 'flexi-time''also.

How is this relevant to the Labour government?

 

[stonerblue]

Yes.

Nowt to do with government then.

 

[PPT]

How is this relevant to the Labour government?

I never said it was.

 

[stonerblue]

Can’t wait for the budget in October when there will be a lot more people pissed off apart from the politicians, more misery on its way, but don’t forget we are in this together says Starmer who gets free clothes as does his wife. The multi millionaire must be really struggling the shit house.

And you, 'can't wait' for that?

 

[Kompany Car]

I can only speak from my own world where Mrs MB has a public sector pension and I have a private pension through work.

For us there isn’t a huge difference between the two in % terms. I appreciate I might have a good company pension compared to the typical but I can’t recall a single company I’ve worked for where they’ve paid anything below 10%. I know I didn’t have a pension with my first two companies I worked for but got one in the third firm. Might have been 8% back in the 90s when I started there but I don’t recall - retirement was a long way off back then ;)

Despite all that I don’t think I have huge pot - it’s not anywhere near the 7 figures that Starmer has that’s for sure.

I think people need to appreciate that there is more than one scheme in the public sector some seem very generous, other not so much.

The Civil Service pension in particular looks rather unbalanced by comparison to the NHS.

Civil Service is below...

Compared to NHS which seems less generous for some reason...

 

[PPT]

I don't give a toss how much the individual has to put in. My comment was about how much the employer puts in. I.e. free, extra money. Fact is public sector pensions are way more generous than the private sector.

I've never received more than 5 or 6% of free money, although I accept in the private sector 8 to 10% might be available sometimes. But never like 35%.

Am I jealous? Damned right I am. I wish I'd worked in the public sector where I would have earned comparable sums, never got the sack, retired earlier and retired better off. Of course I am jealous.

 

[Blue Maverick]

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And yet it was Labour who reformed them! Pay more, for longer for less, but that’d doesn’t sit with your narrative it’s all Labour fault.

 

[Blue Maverick]

You forgot about working 'flexi-time''also.

You do know that now has to be offered in all employment.

 

[hilts]

Pensioners who need the winter payment will get it,lots of pensioners have plenty of money in the bank and don't need it.You like lots of people are going over the top just to have a go at Labour it's £200 a year FFS.

Looks like someone hasn't read the thread or struggles to understand simple posts.

 

[hilts]

Wrong.

Hes been talking to the same make believe pensioners as that inbetween bloke.