Pension up

[Bluestreak]

The new flat-rate state pension - for those who reached state pension age after April 2016 - is expected to increase to £241.05 a week. That will take it to £12,534.60 a year, a rise of £561.60 compared with now.4.7% increase.

[buzby1066]

With the tax threshold being £12570 and it will be until 2028 means you will end up paying tax on the basic State Pension in the near future.

[kevin pooles gloves]

Great news.
As for it becomeing taxable.
Don't think any party is stupid enough to do that.


REFORM s 20k allowance is yours if ya vote them in.

Rishi warned the public of Labour.

[Snowy]

There’s bugger all great about pensions in the UK when compared with the rest of Europe.
Also why doesn’t every pensioner who’s paid their NI contributions get the same pension instead of each new years set of pensions getting more than the preceding years pension…?

[kevin pooles gloves]

Some news channels saying the triple lock is no longer sustainable.

Er how about stop wasting taxes on Boaties n lazy bastads.

Surely pensioners should be priority over them 2 species.

[buzby1066]

Great news.
As for it becomeing taxable.
Don't think any party is stupid enough to do that.


REFORM s 20k allowance is yours if ya vote them in.

Rishi warned the public of Labour.

It’s classed as taxable income like most benefits are, it’s included in your tax allowance of £12570 a year.

[accrington fan]

what i,d like to know is why cannot they take th tax off at source. most of us have lived our lives with PAYE and are too ol for a big change. som pensioners will get themselves in the shit with this who like me recieve X and spend it all. saving my arse.

[Snowy]

Some news channels saying the triple lock is no longer sustainable.

Er how about stop wasting taxes on Boaties n lazy bastads.

Surely pensioners should be priority over them 2 species.

The main stream media love to keep mentioning the ‘triple lock’ as being unaffordable…funny though what is affordable to the clowns in Parliament.
Compare the pension with the so called ‘living wage’.

[buzby1066]

Woman mid thirties on a talk show the other day said 25% of pensioners were millionaires and the triple lock should abolished, nearly had to buy a new tv as I was going to put my foot through it.
The triple lock will be abolished to be replaced calculating the rise linked to annual wage rises like before not that I agree with that as wages don’t keep pace with inflation. I would imagine a newly elected government would abolish it if they had a decent majority.

[accrington fan]

Some news channels saying the triple lock is no longer sustainable.

Er how about stop wasting taxes on Boaties n lazy bastads.

Surely pensioners should be priority over them 2 species.

The main stream media love to keep mentioning the ‘triple lock’ as being unaffordable…funny though what is affordable to the clowns in Parliament.
Compare the pension with the so called ‘living wage’.

its because so many in the media are years away from the pension and are either not interested or hate the idea of paying for oldies to get it. possibly their mummy and daddie o not need a state pension on a saga cruise.

[Infidel]

If a government can't sort this - then they should pack it in. This has been looming now for years.

The state pension should be free of tax.

What's the point of giving everybody a certain amount and then taxing say £200 of it? It's utterly ridiculous, they might as well just not give you the increase, or make sure the tax code always runs in line the state pension.

[buzby1066]

The original tax threshold was frozen until 2026 by the Conservatives, Labour have frozen it to 2028 now, as your earnings increase because of the threshold freeze you will pay more tax, bit of a fallacy Labour saying they won’t increase personal taxation.

[Infidel]

It’s a con.

Even the “we’ve raised the minimum wage” is a con. The government don’t pay it, employers do and consumers do, meanwhile HRMC rakes in extra due to lower tax codes/higher wages.

[Snowy]

It’s a con.

Even the “we’ve raised the minimum wage” is a con. The government don’t pay it, employers do and consumers do, meanwhile HRMC rakes in extra due to lower tax codes/higher wages.

Aye, the minimum wage….. get pissed off with Ministers saying how they’ve given you a rise, when it’s not their money to give out,…. All they do is lose jobs because the business carries the can.
Same as the mew employment laws where you get full rights from day one, a skivers charter…new employees should be on probation for a couple of months to weed out the skivers and bull shitters.

[kevin pooles gloves]

The minimum wage going up a quid or so every April is causing massive inflation.

Great for youngish first time employees with no experiences but drags down skilled workers wages.

As for State Pensions surely folk ain't expecting a full time wage for doing nothing.

Life goes on till ya die.

[Snowy]

The minimum wage going up a quid or so every April is causing massive inflation.

Great for youngish first time employees with no experiences but drags down skilled workers wages.

As for State Pensions surely folk ain't expecting a full time wage for doing nothing.

Life goes on till ya die.

There’s millions getting more than a full time wage for sitting on their arses doing sweet f a……at least most pensioners worked a lifetime for these shit pensions.