General Discussion
My sincere apologies for the error, I should have said "common working person". I have written to MP's of various parties on many occasions, that includes Tony Blair and David Cameron and todate I can honestly say I have never had a satisfactory answer to my questions. I asked David Cameron why I did not get to vote on the Dawlish Neighbour Hood plan. On the subject of my NI contributions I ...
So what happens to all that pre and post 97 additional NI and graduated NI contributions that millions of us have paid. What worries me is trying to make things "Fairer" means making things more complicated and all my working life I have had to deal with certain goverment departments that seem to be unable to understand the rules that goverments make. More complicated means more stress for the ...
Lynne you have to be aware that at present the state pension is made up of two (or more) parts, the basic state pension and then there are extras based on individual NI contributions both pre and post 1997 and add to this the old graduated national insurance contributions. So for a lot of people their own contributions into the NI system do make up a large part of their individual state pension, ...
The most likely cut will be to free prescriptions, listen to the talk of NHS costs and it would be a great one to target. Just think if the pensioners cannot afford their medicines they will pass away and that solves many things all in one go. No pensions to pay, no bus passes to fund, reduced ederly care home costs to the goverment and all those empty houses for others to buy at very reduced ...
WFA is paid to all who are over 60 , retired or not Although if you are not in receipt of state pension you will probable have to make a claim for it.
You only have too look at the parent company saying that it s committed to increasing dividends by 4% above the rate of inflation to know that we the customers are going to pay more Revenue up by 5.6% profits up by 6.4%.
Do we sell in US Dollars or GBP, might be that we have something more valuable than oil. After all motor manufacturers are working on ways to power cars from water.
And they say that building houses does not add to flood risk. Just more examples of the builders total lack of care for the envoiroment. I thought the site design included a large soke away to stop this happening.
Soundss like the Dawlish council is doing the right thing but will TDC listen, or will they just use "elf & safety as an excuse.
Seen on TV today that there are 1,000,000 empty home in the uk , why do we need to build more? What are we going to do when all the good farmland has been built on.
