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West Ender · 19-11-2005, 20:55

When NIC was first introduced it was to pay for your pension, your NHS and any Benefits you might need in your lifetime. You are still paying NIC. How dare this government decide that you must contribute to another pension fund in order to get enough to live on in your old age? How dare they suggest that you must work longer before you receive the meagre amount they have decided will keep you (barely) alive?

Some of us have private or company pensions. As a Civil Servant I will retire on a pension though, after only 20 years reckonable service, it will be minute. I have a pension from my late husband's last employer too, though the fund went bankrupt shortly after he died and it hasn't increased in 9 years. What about the person who just hasn't had the wherewithall to contribute to a pension fund? What about the person whose work is heavy and manual? Does he continue to swing a pick-axe while his bones ache and his eyesight dims?

If this government wants to save money it should stop the wholesale immigration of opportunists who come here to live on our State Benefits and who have never contributed a penny towards them. Why should you work longer to keep them?

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West Ender Passed away 25-11-09 Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Lymm, Cheshire Posts: 2,674 Blog Entries: 147 Liked: 2 times Rep Power: 193	Re: Work 'til you drop....! When NIC was first introduced it was to pay for your pension, your NHS and any Benefits you might need in your lifetime. You are still paying NIC. How dare this government decide that you must contribute to another pension fund in order to get enough to live on in your old age? How dare they suggest that you must work longer before you receive the meagre amount they have decided will keep you (barely) alive? Some of us have private or company pensions. As a Civil Servant I will retire on a pension though, after only 20 years reckonable service, it will be minute. I have a pension from my late husband's last employer too, though the fund went bankrupt shortly after he died and it hasn't increased in 9 years. What about the person who just hasn't had the wherewithall to contribute to a pension fund? What about the person whose work is heavy and manual? Does he continue to swing a pick-axe while his bones ache and his eyesight dims? If this government wants to save money it should stop the wholesale immigration of opportunists who come here to live on our State Benefits and who have never contributed a penny towards them. Why should you work longer to keep them? __________________ * Some cinemas let the flying monkeys in............and some don't.