State Pension Forecast - A Warning

[Teddy Eagle]

Only if I can leave mine with you 😇

A change is a good as a rest I guess but mine probably won't go. Fair enough, after 30 years she's almost like one of the family.

 

[Tyke Exile]

I filled in everything to catch up on mine. I'm abroad and there's a deadline. Of course, although I did the correct procedure and even did it twice, I haven't heard anything back and the deadline's gone. I'll probably (almost definitely) never hear back. Oh well, here's to poverty in old age. Presumably government policy. "Don't want these bed blockers lasting too long".

You should also check if your pension if frozen. I live in Canada (a commonwealth country!) and my pension was frozen from the day I got it - I get no annual updates.

 

[becky]

oh no , not you also ?

Retirement & Pensions. I always had a fear of setting up a fantastic pension and then doing a James Gandalfini before i could enjoy my hard earned gains. After enjoying a Rock 'n Roll lifestyle for many decades, i will be mightily p1.s$ed off if i live to 87. I could even live long enough to see us getting a stadium worthy of an average Championship club.

Didn't do Keith Richards any harm - he just got himself a younger wife and had twins with her...... see, there is hope!

 

[beak]

State pension top-ups backlog is 'six to eight months'

Sharon Gray, pictured, a retired civil servant from Herefordshire who paid £6,000 in March, was informed that this was the current wait time by a DWP staff member.

www.thisismoney.co.uk

She should log it as a complaint,they soon get a shift on,they have very antiquaited computers and love a complaint to management.

 

[beak]

Didn't do Keith Richards any harm - he just got himself a younger wife and had twins with her...... see, there is hope!

Most billionaires have some sort of expectation. 😆

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Didn't do Keith Richards any harm - he just got himself a younger wife and had twins with her...... see, there is hope!

One of the great ironies that after the lifetime of physical Armageddon he's gone through that he got laid up after falling off a ladder in his library.

 

[chris123]

You've got a second contracted out pension though.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

You should also check if your pension if frozen. I live in Canada (a commonwealth country!) and my pension was frozen from the day I got it - I get no annual updates.

are you telling us you would get more pension money, from the UK government, if you actually lived in the UK ?
did they penalise you for living in Canada ?

 

[ASCPFC]

Didn't do Keith Richards any harm - he just got himself a younger wife and had twins with her...... see, there is hope!

That sounds tiring. But presumably less dangerous than a good book for him.

 

[ASCPFC]

are you telling us you would get more pension money, from the UK government, if you actually lived in the UK ?
did they penalise you for living in Canada ?

I think he means it's not index linked - it's a set amount - it doesn't rise. Which obviously has the issue of being worth f*** all. I think he's probably correct.
Other people here that sorted this before and are already retired are getting some hilarious amounts. My friend's parents get 20 and 78 respectively per week. But better than nothing and, at the end of the day, that was the deal of paying National Insurance.
Mine is supposed to be around 9k a year. Sounds alright but you know Irish prices. It'll be 9k each electricity bill by then.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

I think he means it's not index linked - it's a set amount - it doesn't rise. Which obviously has the issue of being worth f*** all. I think he's probably correct.
Other people here that sorted this before and are already retired are getting some hilarious amounts. My friend's parents get 20 and 78 respectively per week. But better than nothing and, at the end of the day, that was the deal of paying National Insurance.
Mine is supposed to be around 9k a year. Sounds alright but you know Irish prices. It'll be 9k each electricity bill by then.

you could always hop back and forth over the NI border.......pretend to be living in both countries ? if it will stop them freezing your pension......surely worth the effort ?