Womens Pensions

[catswhiskas]

I wondered what other people think to Corbyns promise to pay outstanding pensions for women who did not get theirs at 60, it seems a good deal to me but also a bribe to get more people to vote for him , and is it going to cost taxpayers more in the long run.

[dannyk13]

He has promised a lot of things but to implement them all would make our national debt probably lead to bankruptcy.

[shoota]

He's trying to buy votes with a load of promises he can't possibly fulfil.

[Vagus]

It would be worth about £15,000 to us but there’s no way on earth I’d vote that twerp in, and that’s even supposing he fulfilled this part of his manifesto.
It’s a bribe, as are most things he’s promising.

[Old_Geezer]

I'm waiting for the promise of paying outstanding pensions to all those robbed of theirs from 65.

[hereIam]

Never gonna happen. He's a lair, but he won't be voted in anyway.

[Sqad]

Smart move.......at an appropriate time.
What is there not to like?

[woofgang]

I am not worried (and I am one of those women) about how it would be funded because I have zero belief that he would do it.

[CrapAtCryptics]

Isnt there a case for men whereas all those years when they had retire later than women?

[Georgiesmum]

It wont happen. Its clearly just a bribe to win votes. I cant stand the bloke.I dont believe a word he says.

[woofgang]

C at C the argument is that women like myself (and their spouses) made financial decisions during their working lives based on one set of committments made by the government. The government massively moved the goalposts very close to our retirement dates...even after they had announced the "in principle" new rules, they were still not clear on what would be done about the "gap aged" women. Right up until I received my pension the Pensions Office didn't know how our pensions would be calculated or what I would get. The helpline folk were lovely but I kept getting told "here's what we know this week but we think it will change next week" I was told categorically that I would be allowed pensionable years against my late husband's contributions because he died before he claimed, then I was told I would not, then I was told "we just don't know" I am lucky, my late husband had a private pension and I inherited a proportion of that but for some women it has been nightmarish.

[Twenty200]

But it's exactly the same for men - leaving aside that we've always had to work longer and usually die younger too - my retirement age has been moved on by several years just as some women's have too. I wont be getting a pension at 65 but will have to wait for several years afterwards. But, because we're men, it's not a contentious issue...

[david small]

What they say and what they do are two very different things. Fine words, and dirty deeds.

[gulliver1]

They are all liars , Cameron promised Thousands of new starter homes How many did he build ?.

[catswhiskas]

Thank you for your comments,I am 65 and receive my pension this coming January,so I have missed 5 years worth... I am going to vote for Boris,I just cant see the pension thing happening.

[david small]

Looking good for 64, cats....

[woofgang]

I think its just as contentious if they have moved the goalposts on you twenty200...maybe you should start a movement?

[davebro]

To me he's promised it to try and boost support as the inevitable LOSER in the upcoming GE. He believes he has no chance of winning so can promise anything he darn well likes with no comeback.

Serve him right if he actually won & got egg all over his mush when he couldn't keep his promises.

[naomi24]

Carrots are used to lead donkeys but if you follow don’t expect a nibble. Like his other juicy promises it isn’t going to happen.