£610 a week pension demand is insane

[Thisismyfinesthour]

Just read that there is an online petition doing the rounds for a £610 a WEEK pension demand to the government.
WTAF? Is the heat melting some peoples brains? It seems over 5000 have signed it.
Where do they think the money is coming from?

Btw my son has been offered a mortgage. He's thinking of moving. Same deal we had when we were 23. Three times the first, one times the second. Not 8 or 10 years 😱

It was far longer than that. According to this graph some people paid double digit interest for the majority of their mortgage term.

https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/property-and-mortgages/mortgage-affordability-as-bad-1980s-2408585?srsltid=AfmBOopeI7a0rEqC82fs4Hb29YZJp4M9DPKiWzeb156ji7ayQTES1nhn

Assets. The key word.
Not cash rich.

I agree. And im a pensioner. I hate to hear some of them pleading poverty.

There's obviously some exceptions. But all the ones I know are very comfortable and able to help their kids out financially.

All the ones I know aren’t able to. See we can all do that. It’s meaningless.

However, do you think people who have paid tax and NI for 40+ years should all be living in penury?

Not at all. I just don't know any who do. Those that are on the bread line deserve some support. But there's a difference between penury and £610 a week.

There’s a bloke on our local FB group who posts about this almost every day. People are always reporting him to the moderators and telling him to shut up but he never stops. It might sound harsh but if you’d read his posts you would know why.

The government pension is not the only one you’re supposed to have. If you plan well, you should be able to live well after you retire.

£610 a week is ridiculous.
……. clearly these people haven’t planned well.

I agree but in this thread and another one on the go it’s apparently ok if pensioners get £200 per week and that shouldn’t even need that!

But the current pension is about £250 per week.

I couldn’t live on that and I have no mortgage.

Since when?

The government pension is not the only one you’re supposed to have.

Well it’s the only one a lot of current retirees have, particularly women. So what you’re “supposed to have” is a bit of an irrelevance.

Why couldn't you manage with a 4 weekly payment of £1000 if you have no mortgage?

I'd love to retire at 60. I'd happily accept a pension at 35 hours of the Living Wage. That's exactly what I earn now working in uni admin. I'd love to give my job up to a young person. I feel like a job-blocker.
Take some young (graduate?) off universal credit and let me retire. Win win.

Maybe some of them didn't plan to have a disabled child eg? Or get ill themselves. Or have to give up work to look after an unwell partner or parent. Or get made redundant.

Remiss of them really.

I'm more concerned about a generation of young people who appear to be sociopaths.

I couldn’t. Council tax is £350, utilities £200, water £70, so £380 a month for everything else. No wonder my friend who’s reliant on it thinks several times before she has a coffee away from home.

In April 2010, the equalisation process to 65 started for women

That was me roughly before I retired. I downsized to a house which is much more affordable.

Good for you.

No, just living within my means.

They are all on 3 or more cruises/holidays a year and in Booths/M&S/Waitrose.

I retired last year, I received £977.08 every 4 weeks. My husband works, so I can't claim pension credit.
How do you (and the government) expect us to live on that?
I rent my house btw.
The things I'm reading on here are disgusting 🫣

They would off load your work to your colleagues rather than advertise the job

Not do. We've done all the restructuring and redundancies last year. Newly vacant posts are being filled.

I don't know. But direct debits would be about £800, so I would have 50 quid a week left for food etc. Lucky me.

I don't have to though but people do.

Then you’re lucky, I know lots of poor pensioners. Could you live on £965 per month?
you wait until you’re older, it’s ridiculous all this whinging by younger people about pensions. We didn’t stay in education until we were mid 20’s. I was working from 16, I’ve worked all my life and EARNED my pension by paying into the system for decades. I happily paid for the generation above me to have a pension, on the understanding that pension would be there for me. Now all you young people think you have no responsibility to do the same. Shame on you all!