BREAKING NEWS: state pension exceeds important threshold!

[xoggoth]

Yes. It's going to being really awful for you lot. I would go SNEER but then when I log on here to say I'm dead you might go SNEER back.

[MrRobin]

State pension will be the next thing abolished for high tax payers (a-la child benefit)

[BoredBloke]

Yup.

It's just enough to make sure you wish you were dead.

HTH.

And it's mostly due to the "generosity" of the Sainted Margaret.

or help you on your way through lack of food and heating!

[TimberWolf]

And it's going to be a whole lot worse when we are pensioners. If it ever happens. Now is the golden age.

[AtW]

Low and behold: "State pension will be over £100" ... per week!!!

"It is likely to rise by £4.49 a week from £97.65 to around £102.14, giving some small comfort to pensioners who have suffered from a fall in savings rates and rise in the cost of living in the last few years.

The rise, which will take effect from April next year, comes after official figures showed that inflation continued to rise at well above the Government's target. "

More: State pension will be over £100 - Telegraph

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So that's whopping £5.2k per year, let's see:
1) council tax £1k
2) fuel (gas/power): £1k
3) water: £500

That's 50% pension gone

4) insurance: car, life, house - £500 per year?

5) posting tulip on CUK ... FREE (for now!)

Well that's like whopping £200 per month to live on buying food, Sky Sports, fuel for car

xxx) life in retirement - priceless