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AIBU to think that I shouldn't have bothered working and paying into National Insurance for the 35 years I have done so?

431 replies

HauntedBungalow · 30/07/2024 20:38

When all I will get is the bare State Pension. Whereas other people who did not make these contributions and/or did not work will get Pension Credit plus all the other nice little add ons like Council Tax Support, free boilers and now Winter Fuel Allowance? AIBU to think I'm a mug for bothering to work all those years?

OP posts:
Ponoka7 · 30/07/2024 20:40

You can get a free boiler as someone over 60. Council tax support is means tested. Were you not paid for working?

JenniferBooth · 30/07/2024 20:40

@HauntedBungalow DH gets PC He did pay into a private pension but they went bust.

opalescented · 30/07/2024 20:40

Hopefully you have another pension too????

ByCupidStunt · 30/07/2024 20:40

I hear you OP.

when I look at what my mother (who is only 15 years older than me) got and then compare it to what i'm gonna get, i could cry.

Testina · 30/07/2024 20:39

And for that 35 years, have those people been better or worse off than you?

Miley1967 · 30/07/2024 20:39

Have you not paid into a private pension in all that time?