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Autumn Statement 2013 - your thoughts

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RebeccaMumsnet · 05/12/2013 11:33

The Autumn Statement is currently live on the BBC

Thought to be included are a potential faster rise in pension age, married couples tax allowance, growth forecasts to be revised up and a fuel duty freeze

Share your thoughts below.

OP posts:
SeaDevilscanPlay · 05/12/2013 13:00

Why feminists?

Juliet123456 · 05/12/2013 12:53

A kick in the teeth for single mothers and feminists.

omuwalamulungi · 05/12/2013 12:31

Good point Spork, should have allowed for nepotism!

TheSporkforeatingkyriarchy · 05/12/2013 12:25

omuwalamulungi - I thought the same, many areas of the country will never be able to retire just on age, let alone cost of living, and there are many jobs that won't be able to be done by most at that age. Quite a few problems with that that they aren't acknowledging.

I'm guessing the delay is allow their friends time to sell their homes first before it comes in Wink.

I'm confused about his inclusion of income support in his cap - hasn't that been replaced by Employment Support Allowance? And other than housing benefit, it seems most will be affecting those with disabilities. We can't exactly cap how many disabled people there are, guess he plans to just leave more people in limbo since they've already cut out more support for people with disabilities getting into work.

SeaDevilscanPlay · 05/12/2013 12:24

I've been watching and there's not much that's caught my eye

My eyes keep getting drawn to the guy sitting above GO who is texting Blush

JugglingFromHereToThere · 05/12/2013 12:18

I've been watching and there's not much that's caught my eye. What would affect our family most is better (rather than worse) funding of early years provision and then I might be able to get a job - or not have lost the last one due to funding cuts.
Think free school meals for children in KS1 is a positive initiative, though won't affect our family. But my DC have always had school dinners and I think that's been beneficial and worth it for us.

Lauranne · 05/12/2013 12:18

Their behaviour is shocking!

SeaDevilscanPlay · 05/12/2013 12:12

Ed Balls always comes off as blustering and a tad incompetent, however he tries to respond.

SeaDevilscanPlay · 05/12/2013 12:09

I think that most people my age (30's) and younger are probably of the mindset that by the time we come to retire there will not be a state pension.

SeaDevilscanPlay · 05/12/2013 12:08

thing

SeaDevilscanPlay · 05/12/2013 12:05

I know the FSM for KS1 children wasn't overly popular on MN, but if its done right I think it is a good think.

Transferable tax rate will be good for us.

equinox · 05/12/2013 11:53

Great that fuel duty is to be frozen.

I don't have a problem with raising retirement age given most of us will probably end up working still in the erstwhile 'twilight' years as cost of living too high and pensions down the swanny.

omuwalamulungi · 05/12/2013 11:50

Good about capital gains tax but why wait til 2015?

omuwalamulungi · 05/12/2013 11:50

If retirement age is genuinely tracked by life expectancy, surely it needs to vary region by region.

Also, where have they got 94 from if they are arguing that a third of ones adult life is to be spent in retirement? In 2011 our life expectancy in the UK was 80.75. If we retire at 69 are they arguing we don't come into adulthood until we are 47?

Tell us how much the deficit still is not how much we will be borrowing over the next few years. I want to know what the figures are, not spin on how much we'll have to borrow to make the payments.

ProfPlumSpeaking · 05/12/2013 11:47

Great news that there is to be capital gains tax on residential UK properties owned by foreigners - the current situation is bizarre and creates expensive empty properties in London as we have become a tax haven for rich foreigners with their choice of tax free asset being prime London property.