Doctors will only get £68,000/year pension under revised scheme

[SupremeSpod]

Doctors' pensions may be crazy. But that's irrelevant. If you are on a certain package and then your employer easy they're going to make it worse, you'll feel peed off. doesn't matter if you're a Binman being told you have to pay for your own gloves, or a pro sportsman having to take a pay cut to 'only' £100k/week. It's relative and you fight for the best deal - that's simple negotiation/capitalism.

You don't have to sympathise with them to agree you'd do the same in their place.

I think striking is wrong and they earn loads but I don't begrudge them fighting for what they already get.

Ok, I earn more than the threshold for the receipt of Child Benefit for my son.

When my son was born there wasn't a threshold.

Do you think that I'm entitled to fight for that which has/will be withdrawn?

[minestrone]

From what I understand the argument is not on the amount of pension but the timing of retirement.

[TimberWolf]

From what I understand the argument is not on the amount of pension but the timing of retirement.

What pension do they get if they retire aged 50 to 55 regardless of the new rules?

[minestrone]

Ok, I earn more than the threshold for the receipt of Child Benefit for my son.

When my son was born there wasn't a threshold.

Do you think that I'm entitled to fight for that which has/will be withdrawn?

You sound like a wholesome family man, hope it works out for you this time big man.

[minestrone]

What pension do they get if they retire aged 50 to 55 regardless of the new rules?

I think GP pensions are based on total earnings over the career rather than contributions, I know a doctor who retired last year in his late 50s with 300,000 lump sum and 70,000 a year.

[d000hg]

Ok, I earn more than the threshold for the receipt of Child Benefit for my son.

When my son was born there wasn't a threshold.

Do you think that I'm entitled to fight for that which has/will be withdrawn?

Sure you're entitled to complain about it. But changing the benefits system and changing your employment package are very different.

If you were on £1000pd and they told you they were going to reduce it to £950pd would you think that was something to bitch about or would you say "I earn more than the average person so it doesn't matter"?

[minestrone]

There is a serious problem with doctors being offered £200 an hour to work overnight and a lot of GPs chase the money, working 100 hour weeks in your 20s might be somehow managable but in your 40s and 50s it is not really an option. Doctors often work the day, do nighshift and then go back to a days surgery wihout sleep. THey should have a tachometer on their work hours.

[Doggy Styles]

99% of the private sector will have lower pension expectations too. Including me.

Why shouldn't we go on strike?

[TimberWolf]

The GPs I know hardly ever seem to go to work, I wonder what their pay and pension is for part-time working.

[TimberWolf]

Leaving_these_shores

23 minutes ago

Well perhaps not Herr Doctor. My company that I started from scratch paid £1million in Corporation tax alone in 2009, that was the highest year but there's been a couple close to that too. That's before I start talking of Employers NI, personal taxation and the exorbitant amount of stamp duty I have paid over the last decade.
But as I won't be missed I can rest assuredly knowing that I shan't be paying another penny in UK tax. Good day to you Sir.

1965doc

16 minutes ago

Well as I earned more than £1 million annually for many years in private practice alone, you do not impress me with your silly bragadoccio.

Just like contractors except the numbers are 10x the amount and the language a little more sophisticated.
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