Govt considering u-turn on WASPI compensation

Maybe they were busy dealing with their families?

There was no social media then, people were far less informed.

Probably already been said but ime the reason most younger people get p*ssed off by this is because we’ve barely any hope of home ownership, despite being sold the dream of better careers/salaries than our parents generation by attending university this hasn’t eventuated, most younger people families I know have two working parents and barely stay afloat, will have to work til 70+ and may not get a pension at all, maybe I’m from the wrong area but I certainly won’t be getting an inheritance nor will my partner, none of my friends are expecting anything significant…

If this cohort is so rich, then it stands to reason that the next generation down will benefit massively for the sheer luck of being an offspring. Don’t hear very much complaining about that. Just like any generation benefits or otherwise from just happening to be born at a certain time.

And the younger baby boomers (born 1964) are still working and it will be for another 6 years before they reach state pension age.

A cohort of 18 years have quite different experiences depending on when they were born. Some have the benefits or difficulty’s in line with the previous or the next generation and there are individual differences as well. There seems to be a massive assumption on here that baby boomers are dripping in multiple properties and have vast pensions when that is not the case. A few may do, but that is the exception out of any generation. Women in particular are worse off than men. Whilst younger women now have the benefit of access to equal pay (some still miss out), pensions etc it wasn’t always the case. The poorest pensioners are women. As long as women continue to have time away from the workplace for childbirth and child rearing, women as a group will continue to be worse off than men.

It’s about time we stopped pitting one generation or one person against another. Divide and conquer and the race to the bottom is not helpful for any of us.

I am 1959 as well, I don’t remember seeing lots of publicity and certainly there wasn’t for those born earlier. 1959 is right at the end of the scale here

I’ve reported this thread. This thread is ageist, sexist and really mean spirited. Some of these affected women were left in very difficult situations with very little notice, not all, but some. This community should be supportive of these, not whipping up some of the vitriol I have read.

Boomer is not a slur.

@Northquit ”Same place as the 1bn for redundancies in the NHS (And I hope to god they measure how many people take redundancy and then come back the week after)” Is that because each trust is essentially a separate employer so you could be made redundant from one, then go and work in another? I agree it’s wrong.

So where exactly is the £10 billion coming from?

For those in favour which other services should be cut to pay for it or which taxes would they like to see increased?

I think most people would like society to operate on merit and be able to live a good life throughout, not hoping they might inherit a few quid when they’re in their 60s.

And of course - there is no guarantee anyone will inherit a lot of money. A lot of pensioner wealth is in their pension (which won’t be inherited in most cases), and properties may end up being used to pay for care home fees.

So - there is more to it than ‘oh well you’ll inherit some money’.

And the ageist posts just keep on coming. It’s so depressing that women can’t stand shoulder to shoulder to fight injustice against our sex.

If this cohort is so rich, then it stands to reason that the next generation down will benefit massively for the sheer luck of being an offspring. Don’t hear very much complaining about that. Just like any generation benefits or otherwise from just happening to be born at a certain time.

If this cohort is so rich, then it stands to reason that the next generation down will benefit massively for the sheer luck of being an offspring. Don’t hear very much complaining about that. Just like any generation benefits or otherwise from just happening to be born at a certain time.

If this cohort is so rich, then it stands to reason that the next generation down will benefit massively for the sheer luck of being an offspring. Don’t hear very much complaining about that. Just like any generation benefits or otherwise from just happening to be born at a certain time.

Pensioners haven't got the country into a financial mess. It's the government who make all the financial decisions, not older people.

You are spectacularly missing the point.

Because handing over £20million to a corrupt government abroad is a waste of tax payer money.

If our government wasn’t so quick to dish out millions of pounds to other governments then maybe we would have more money to spend on people in the Uk, and maybe they wouldn’t have to go back on their election promise not to increase taxes on working people (eg NI and also income tax - which they are widely expected to do).

And maybe, just maybe they wouldn’t need to backtrack on the compensation the Waspi women.

HTH.

Yes. So I'm struggling to see what your point is or what it has to do with this topic?

I don’t think anyone has said that every woman of WASPI age feels this way. But you have to see the wider context. Todays pensioners have had the best financial days this country has ever seen, they retired far earlier than we will, many will be drawing a pension for 25+ years and the rest of the country is barely above water, yet they’re still clamouring for more at our expense. It’s awful and just so greedy.

Financial circumstances change for everyone at a moment’s notice, that doesn’t entitle us to compensation from the state. Tuition fees tripled overnight the year after I left school. Our mortgage shot up after the Trusterfuck a few years ago. Nobody gave us years to ‘financially plan’ for those things, they just happened. The WASPIs had far more warning than most, if they lived under a rock and refused to show even the smallest bit of common sense how is that our problem?

Boomer is not a slur.