To ask you to guess how much extra your pension will go up when you hit 80?

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I'll answer in a couple of minutes.....

Is it 10p a month?

I didn’t know it went up. Why does it need to go up at 80?

It was put up in recognition of “the special claims of very elderly people who on the whole need help rather more than others" from Government website. To be fair, this was done in 1971 so the amount would have been worth more then.

It's something like 25p a week. It's a throwback to years ago when it went up by five shillings a week (a not inconsiderable sum back then) and it's never been changed.

Ah... like the Christmas bonus? Almost enough to buy a bar of chocolate.

It always used to be 25p.

Ah, I know my mum said it was enough to buy some sweets once a month. I thought she had cheaper tastes than she obviously does.

It is 25p a week.

25pin 1971 worth about £3.25 - I hope such riches doesn't change my neighbour too much! 😂

The way things are going, I probably won't see my pension till I'm 90 anyway!

I am not entirely convinced there will even be such a thing as a state pension if I make it to 80.

A recently turned 80 year old was telling me the other day it is 25p.

Sorry just seen you've already answered.

I think pensioners get a Christmas present of £10 every December.

My Mum's going to be rolling in it come September.

Not enough for a Freddo, but she should get a Dairy Milk Little Bar.

Party down her's.

I honestly asssume that because I've been a higher earner, they'll means test away state pension by the time i get there.
:(

Ah, that'll be why DM has been splashing out!