£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?

My phones are £68 per month.

How are the young being sacrificed? What age do you mean?

And I won’t get it until I’m 67, so what’s your point?

Gas and electric are down to many variables. Ours is £190 a month when in our old house it was £45 a month. We don’t use any additional devices the fact is we moved to a much older house with ancient, inefficient electrics and haven’t been able to update them yet.

Wow! How many phones do you have? 😂😂

My phone bill is £7.90 per month and includes free European roaming.

Two plus the landline!

If money is tight, then I’d suggest that you could make some serious savings here. My phone contract is sim-only with Spusu. I got a deal on their 20 GB per month plan and pay £7.90, DP is slightly less chronically online than I am and spends more time on WiFi and pays even less. In an era of cheap eSIMs and dual SIM phones, £68 of phone bills per month for one person feels like quite an extravagance. You’re spending £720 per year more than I am on your phones. That’s a holiday!!

What happened to “we’re all in this together”? The current shitshow that the UK has become isn’t the fault of pensioners or young people.

It’s the fault of the UK Govts since Thatcher.

Selling off our assets including social housing, gas, electricity, public transport, royal mail, BT, etc.

Closing down our manufacturing industries.

Charging people Uni fees.

Brexit.

The corruption during covid.

Bailing out the banks.

I could go on.

But here we all are fighting over the crumbs of what’s left. Which is SFA.

Sorry, this was to @Differentforgirls

Three people. Money isn’t tight. We’re ok. But thank you. I will look into it 😊

A reduction in council tax is dependent on the local authority policy. Where I live only people on universal credit get a reduction over and above the 25% single person discount.

Same here.

Money isn’t tight here either but I hate paying more than I need to on boring stuff when I could better spend the money on nice things. 😊 I’ve found them really good since I’ve switched. The signal is way more reliable where I live (London) than with my old mainstream provider.

Lebara?

Spusu

Not heard of them. Might look them up

For working-age people, councils in England can set their own Council Tax Reduction rules, so one council might give substantial help while another might restrict it heavily. Universal Credit can feature in those local schemes. �
GOV.UK
But for someone who has reached State Pension age, there are nationally prescribed rules that councils have to follow. The 2026 regulations specifically uprate the pension-age income and capital figures used for Council Tax Reduction. � Some councils state this very plainly: Colchester says pension-age support is set by central government and the council has no influence over those regulations, while Knowsley calls it a national scheme.

I don't live in England.

I'm a pensioner in receipt of a state and private pension. The nation has a pension problem. When I was young, most people worked from age 15 or 16 til 65. The best part of 50 years ni contributions. Typically people lived 5 to 10 years in retirement. Now people dont start work until 18 at least and life expectancy is 80+. So less than 50 years of contributions has to pay for 15 - 20 years of pensions.
If the triple lock is not scrapped eventually the state pension will exceed average pay. If average earnings and inflation are less than 2.5%, pensions catch up with earnings.
Pensions have to change

I'd like to know that too. Wonder if we'll find out?

Doubt it!

I don’t think this poster means this as literal. I’d suggest they mean that in view of our finite resources, the older generations are being allocated a disproportionate amount of the pie at the expense and of younger generations. She feels like much less of a priority. More sacrificing the interests of, not literally killing them off.

She hasn't said she wants more. That's a wild assumption on your part.

They never do but they post it! Let's wait and see her explanation.

How much do you think the state pension actually is? Because £26436 seems a lot more to me than £12548.