disgrace

[thunderlizard]

That's £44 a year each. Boomed!

[mrdonuts]

Would you really seize money from pensioners who have been overpaid in the past through no fault of their own?

are you talking about public sector gold plated pensioners - yup

[BrilloPad]

Would you really seize money from pensioners who have been overpaid in the past through no fault of their own?

Dont feed the troll.

[PM-Junkie]

Would you really seize money from pensioners who have been overpaid in the past through no fault of their own?

Yup - and charge them interest, and confiscate their houses for being wrinkly coffin-dodgers and for being the generation that started screwing up the planet.

Bah humbug....

[expat]

why are they not having to pay this back, i would send in the baliffs to recover this

Would you really seize money from pensioners who have been overpaid in the past through no fault of their own?

[mrdonuts]

why are they not having to pay this back, i would send in the baliffs to recover this

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle5353864.ece


100,000 pensions face pay cut after blunderPhilippe Naughton and Jill Sherman
Nearly 100,000 retired public sector workers face a signficant reduction in their annual pension following a massive pensions blunder dating from 1978, the Government admitted today.

Liam Byrne, the Cabinet Office minister, told MPs that £126 million had been overpaid to an estimated 95,000 people over the last 30 years including teachers, soldiers and nurses.

Letters went out yesterday to all those affected alerting them that their pension payments may have to be reviewed from April next year. Although no pensioners will be expected to give back the amount they were overpaid, they will face reduced payments averaging £220 a year, or just under £4 a week.

Organisations representing the elderly were furious that ministers had not given individuals the full details of how their pensions will be affected and most will now have to wait till the new year or even later to get the information.