Pension Credit , Damn

[SparklyKid]

a couple of quid short .  it seems to open a lot of goodies for free .

[barry1010]

On average it is worth £3k a year, less for some but could be much more. You can have £10k savings without it affecting pension credit. 

[youngmafbog]

Teach you to put some by for your retirement.

The message now is spend it all and sit back for the freebies from the Government.

[barry1010]

You're right for people in your position.

Everyone on the full 'new' pension is around £4 over the limit

[douglas9401]

It was ever so.

[davebro3]

not for WFA it wasn't

[barry1010]

That's not the message,young.

Everyone on the new state pension doesn't qualify for the freebies.

[jourdain2]

I'm not on the 'new pension', nor is OH - but we each made the mistake of saving a bit and investing in what now appear to be smallish pensions ---- looked good at the time.  Let's face it £15 was a decent income and allowed for usual small inflation rates. We know what happened and this latest lot of pay rises will make us even worse off.