In the news today.

I personally fail to see how they didn't know. The news was everywhere and unfortunate as it is govts can change the pension age. These women got a lot more notice than women in other countries. They'll never see this money.

If I was in govt and compiling a list of compensation payouts, they'd be on it but firstly would be blood borne virus sufferers, nuclear test victims, catastrophic vaccine event victims, people who worked with toxic chemicals, post office subpostmasters. Most of these haven't ever been properly compensated.

But why did they leave work then? I can't see myself retiring before I'm 70. I might reduce my hours to bring me under the tax threshold, but my part time NHS pension (when the children were small) and my University of London pension aren't enough to just give up work.

I feel that this is just the way it is. It's what life deals you. In other countries people are only getting one year's notice of the change. People also had the option of paying upfront for their NI and getting the pension earlier. There is a requirement that you must contribute for 35 years, 4 of which must be between the age of 50-60. This is the part they could pay for if they wished. One of the staff I worked with in the NHS doubled her contributions so that she could get her pension earlier.

If I had worked 4 hours more a week for the NHS I would have got a full time pension, but nobody told me that and that's the breaks.

www.nerdwallet.com/uk/business/over-50s-work/#:~:text=So%20what%20is%20driving%20the,group%20really%20values%20flexible%20working.

I would think that putting an elderly person in a nursing care home now is well beyond the reach of the majority of all of us, here in Birmingham the minimum price now is over £1,250 per week .

Ticker bomb?

theconversation.com/microplastics-found-in-artery-plaque-linked-with-higher-risk-of-heart-attack-stroke-and-death-225937

HOLD THE PRESS


A huge problem over the little cross on the collar of English football team!

Or someone who needs a serious talking too!