Good Idea

[tonyav]

Or not !
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/personalfinance/david-cameron-open-to-idea-of-workers-saving-up-to-fund-own-sick-pay/ar-AAcUBag

[wolf63]

My sick record was pretty bad - I would have had to save most of my wages to pay for when I was ill. I much preferred six months full pay and six months full pay.

[tonyav]

If this idea come to fruition I'm sure that you would have been insured, wolf !.

[woofgang]

Well I have health insurance and the *** tax me on it!

[tonyav]

That's the thing though isn't it, woofgang. Would it be insurance and still have to pay NI contributions.

[Romaz]

We already have such a system, it's called National Insurance! The Tories might take us for idiots, but lets not let them prove it and fall for this scam.

[mikey4444]

I'm sure that the millions of people on low incomes, especially the ones on Minimum Wage, will be delighted with these new plans.

[Deskdiary]

Woofgang - being P11'd on my Private Medical Insurance (which also covers my wife and kids) drives me absolutely bananas.

Perhaps I'm being dim, but try as I might I just simply cannot see the justification of being taxed on prudence.

If anything surely people who have PMI should be getting a tax rebate!

[woofgang]

I agree deskdiary. because of it, we will be using less of our national insurance payments , yet we get penalised for it.