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Geoffreys

A short video here today will be of interest to you:
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We made our original plans based on my wife qualifying for her pension first and thus qualifying for state care here, that has obviously changed and now I qualify first which means about an additional€20k in medical insurance fees...stuff happens..

Really Geoff? And which party do really think will reintroduce these pensions? From what I understand from your posts our wife effectively retired many years ago.....hardly one of those most effected....but hey oh it's another bandwagon to keep you amused...I do really sorry for those those effected, but people like your wife had plenty of notice and time to adjust. We made our original plans based on my wife qualifying for her pension first and thus qualifying for state care here, that has obviously changed and now I qualify first which means about an additional€20k in medical insurance fees...stuff happens..

They won't, and those most effected, the most deserving and disadvantaged are now in the zone and qualifying...not much consolation but I am afraid the campaign, however well meaning has run its course. If you want to know how much your wife will eventually receive you should go onto the HMRC web site, you need her log in, I assume you have one, and it will go you a pension quote and a record of all qualifying years.

I am in a similar position Geoffrey. My friend was 60 in January 2013 and has been receiving her pension since September 2013. I was born December 1953 and have to wait until March 2019 until I receive mine. I have paid in 38 years. I was never notified even though DWP & HRMC have my address here in Cyprus. I know they have my address cause they send me tax forms.

Mary

TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS’ FOR WASPI WOMEN: WHY IT’S A MYTH

A decade of women born in the 1950s is bearing the brunt of increases to their State Pension Age (SPA) without proper notification. Many have had not one but 2 SPA increases, leaving no time to prepare and shattering carefully laid retirement plans. All have to wait up to 6 years longer than they expected to get their state pension, causing many families great hardship and distress. These changes have cost up to £46,000 each in lost pension.

When challenged about the appalling mismanagement of this process by the DWP, the Government says it made £1.1 billion worth of ‘transitional arrangements’ or ‘concessions’ and has no intention of doing any more for us. Let’s look at what that actually means.

In fact, there were no transitional arrangements; only an Amendment to the 2011 Pensions Act. That amendment capped the second increase in SPA at 18 months rather than the two years the Government wanted. So there were no ‘concessions’ or ‘transitional arrangements’, but up to an extra 18 months of further lost pension costing those affected between £8,000-£12,000. And this amendment only applied to a small number of the 2.6 million women hit by the rises in SPA.

Firstly it only affected women born between 6th January 1954 and 5th September 1954 - NO ONE ELSE. Secondly the only women who actually got 6 months taken off their SPA were those born between 6th March 1954 and 5th April 1954. The rest of the group born in the 9 months as above had anything from 1 to 5 months taken off. That means everyone in that group had 18 months added to their SPA.

The 2011 Act made a total saving on government spend (they use the word ‘benefit’) of £31.7 billion and the little amendment they made was worth £1.1 billion. They did not ‘give’ us anything but made an overall saving of £30.6 billion. Furthermore, this amendment included all men as well as women born in that period. Within this amendment, of the 7+ years women affected by this Act, only 9 months were ‘helped’. Of the 2.6 million women affected by SPA increases only 245,000 were ‘helped’.

To summarise, the 2011 Act was nothing to do with equalisation and everything to do with cost cutting. There were no transitional arrangements; the Government just took less from us than it planned, adding to the burden of the first rise in SPA. The then Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, boasted at the 2013 International Finance Ministers’ Panel (Global Investments Conference) that it was probably one of the “less controversial” things he did and one of the most cost saving too. It certainly wasn’t for those hit by it. Interestingly, one of his fellow panellists commented that it would be better to tackle youth unemployment before raising SPAs; another pointed out that any SPA increases must be done gradually, with at least 12-15 years’ notice.

This is the opportunity for affected women and their friends/families to tell their MP's they expect their support for the WASPI campaign or they won't get their vote...the one thing that scares any MP is the prospect of losing their precious jobs!

I'm perfectly happy with what I can see in the leaked document... I know where my vote is going.

Strange, but I'm sure I saw a lot more in that mandate than just the WASPI details

...increase Corporation Tax thus reducing the UKs competitiveness.......

A good post MPM and whilst I do symphasise with the WASPI campaign I do hope that members will not vote for a party based on a single, and let's face it, a very minority issue, which does not undermine those that have been most effected. A vote for labour with its empty promises, is quite frankly a vote for anarchy.

And how many get away with Avoiding Corporation Tax through Tax Avoidance that costs the country £Billions each year..

Yep, correct, but I think you will Find Mrs May is on top of that one....whilst Labour suggest putting it up to an extent that small business fails and larger ones decide perhaps the UK is not the place to invest in...

It so annoys me that Labour ,Lib Dems etc can promise the world purely because they know they have no chance of winning the election. They would not have a clue should the unthinkable happen and I can say hand on heart that there is absolutely no way they could keep to their manifestos. The tories have to be careful what they promise because they know they have to keep to it.Re WASPI,although I have every sympathy with the 50's ladies they are not going to win and in my opinion are just giving people false hope. I feel that the Lib Dems are right when they say an extra penny on tax as there is no way this country can pay pensions and additional money to the NHS etc without finding sone way to get more income. The MPs who sign a pledge to promote the WASPI ladies are just paying lip service to get votes and then when Pm question time comes up they will ask the question for assistance for the ladies,get told no and that will be it. They can go back and say they tried - yeah!!