Retirees ‘disgusted’ by £4.25 state pension increase amid ‘never ending’ price rises As the cost of living crisis continues, pensioners have told The Mirror that the state pension increase simply isn’t enough. Retired teacher Sue called the minimal rise “insulting to pensioners”
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It’s probably not the best time to get sympathy from the bulk of the population.
Somebody triple lock my wages.
Now imagine how those on benefits feel.
Stop voting Tory.
Yeah a little out of touch tbh, I doubt this will garner much sympathy, and personally believe it shouldn’t.
Seeing as the state pension is amongst the most generous of benefits the government gives out, and also it’s not supposed to be the only pension you have, your company should have a pension scheme and you should also be saving in a SIPS or Lifetime ISA (The latter of which the Government gives you 25% of whatever you saved, up to £1000 if you save to the limit of £4000).
The government shouldn’t responsible for taking care of you and your life, this aint a nanny state.
Plus social care for the elderly is being essentially subsided by the young working age population with the NI increase, which many who are recieving benifits now, never had to pay.
This is all on top of all the other benifits and concessions senior citizens recieve, from discounted rail cards, to bus passes etc.
Everyone is struggling with the cost of living crisis and real time wage cuts, especially in the public sector, so in a time of lean pickings, it feels a little raw to see such entitlement.
The state pension is a privilege not a right.
Be insulted.
Unfortunately, I think the more this starts to bite at the older generation, my parents included, it could impact on Tory voters and be a necessary evil.
Not saying all older gen are Tory voters, nor richer, southerners etc but, the impact being felt across different demographics – may crack some echo chambers.
Best go buy mum that sleeved electric blanket from Aldi.
‘I’ve voted tory all my life, this is a disgrace, they’re meant to go after the poors, not me.’
: every pensioner everywhere.
As difficult as this is to swallow for the working population, particularly those in the public sector who’ve more or less had their wages frozen since 2010, it is important. Pensioners are the Tories’ main voter base: they overwhelmingly vote Conservative. And that is the reason we get things like a rise in national insurance (which pensioners don’t pay), rather than a rise in income tax or any other tax. The Tories know if they keep pensioners happy they stay in power. That’s why until now they’ve prioritised increasing pensions over other spending.
But now the Tories can’t afford to keep pensioners happy. So maybe, just maybe, pensioners might start to consider other issues and vote differently.
I’d put all the little money I have on them having voted tory
Turkeys upset after Christmas they voted for is confirmed
Sure, just sell your house that has shot up exponentially in value since you bought it for £20.
“But we were *promised* the Conservatives would look after *us*! These nasty price hikes and tax hikes are supposed to help fund *us*!”
I’ve got a phonecall today at half eleven to help a young mother with sorting out something to help keep her lights on after her benefits were frozen (yes, she’s pay-as-you-go and yes, I will be dumping credit on her account. Don’t tell her Tory MP!) I’ve got more time for people like the young mum than pensioners who voted for a party that *intentionally* set out manifesto pledges that even the more short-sighted of old coffin-dodgers could recognise would shaft younger voters. They really have no shame, do they? Then again, as my Gran has pointed out (somewhat evilly and gleefully over the past ten years), the baby boomer generation were *always* more spoiled than their parents…
I guess the Conservatives don’t actually want to be in government next then. They are just looting the UK.
Well when you vote Tory this is what you get, imagine how the rest of us feel? Next to wage increases with inflation continuously rising
Maybe if they stop going out for coffees/avocado on toast & stop their Netflix subscription they will be better off.
This is my gran. She will moan for hours about how her face keeps getting eaten but never manages to draw the line to the leopards she keeps voting for.
>Live in the most prosperous period in human history
>Do everything in your power to ruin it for everyone else
>Still have triple locked pensions despite stagnating wages in the UK
>Dodge the NI increase, despite everyone being in this together
>Keep voting Tory
>Asks for sympathy
Yeah, no thanks.
It’s surprising that the Conservatives are gradually abandoning each grouping of people that more generally vote Conservative.
I mean, did they get their lists mixed up?
I mean everyone is different and she may not have, but statistically she voted tory. People like her were happy to vote tory when it was poor and disabled thrown under the bus, but as soon as things impact them, they question them. As I say, she may not have personally but i’m talking generally.
Whinging fuckers already get over double what an unemployed person gets
I mean they aren’t wrong. But they vote Tory and have zero empathy for the workers who have had pay freezes and below inflation pay rises. So it is difficult finding the sympathy for them.
My dad voted tory for Brexit reasons. Now says Brexit was a disaster and the tories are cunts.
Almost as if I told him that before…
Oh cry me a fucking river.
1. As generations, the people born 1930-1960 in the UK have essentially had the best lives of any Human beings ever, because we Peaked about 20 years ago and it’s all downhill now.
2. They fucking voted for this shower AND Brexit.
Why are the media so determined to make the population hate each other. It’s always one segment of society being pitched against another.
Most people on benefits got somewhere between 20p – £2.70, with the majority getting around the £2.30.mark. Only people on incapacity benefits got over 3 quid -£3.45 – they may not work either, but they get £118 per week to live on.
This overlooks that there are poor pensioners and wealthy pensioners.
The ‘poor’ pensioners are those relying on only the state pension (plus pension credit and housing benefit) and they will be the ones impacted by the 3.1% rise – although of course because the rise is based on the best of 2.5% / rise in average earnings / inflation to the 12 months to September, then their rise next April will be 7% or more.
And then you have the ‘wealthy’ pensioners. Those are the ones with defined benefit pension schemes, and houses bought years ago and which have risen vastly in value.
The state pension is not means tested. I know a couple who retired with a defined benefit pension from both working in the civil service, and together getting £60k a year in db pension which increases by inflation each year. They are not at state pension age yet, but when they are they will receive another £19k a year, taking their pension income to £79k. And they have no mortgage and a house worth ££££.
Do you think the ‘wealthy’ pensioners will stop voting conservative because their state pension hasn’t gone up by inflation immediately but will catch up next year?
Well done, you played yourselves.
Sympathy for the pensioners who didn’t vote Tory.
Otherwise, fuck you and enjoy
“im so angry that young people who will never get a state pension aren’t paying more national insurance to prop up my pension!”
This probably makes me an arsehole, but it is hard to have sympathy when I will be paying NI my entire life and will almost certainly not receive the state pension when I am their age/ever.
Fucking welcome to the club it’s the pensioners that have done this to us
When the current pensioners are struggling that’s how you know we’re heading into a massive retirement crisis in future generations.
Today’s pensioners were dealt the best cards in all of history. Buying up cheap as chips homes, benefiting from the resultant explosion of house prices as interest rates hit rock bottom, lucked out with triple lock pension and unsustainable defined benefit pensions, able to invest their accumulated wealth in the stock market decades ago which exploded since, free movement of labour to work anywhere in the EU, free university education, higher starting salaries/wages adjusted for inflation vs today’s youth…I mean, I could go on.
Sure they didn’t have smartphones or other quality of life benefits, but they couldn’t be more well-positioned for a financially comfortable retirement. It’s only downhill from here for future generation’s retirement funds, and yet today’s pensioners are still struggling.
They just need to stop going to Bingo and eating fry ups down the cafe. Easy, plus with those savings can buy another home it’s so easy
Older people disgusted as they can’t afford their thirtieth month-long cruise in the Maldives. In all fairness, it’s a shit situation. Pensions shouldn’t be messed with, but everyone is suffering at the minute. Too many poor younger people out on the streets and too many rich older bastards still voting Tory.
At least they’re getting a pension. No doubt there’ll be no such luck by the time I retire.
She can get fucked. Where was the state pension cut when working people were locked up and our income got cut to zero through redundancy?
Suck it up. You wanted covid response. You got it. It cost 500 billion to keep your grey, wrinkly arses safe, when you could have just stayed at home. That money is now manifesting itself as inflation.
ZERO sympathy. If you want a comfortable retirement SAVE FOR IT YOURSELF, or even consider downsizing.
Hahahahaha heavy this , don’t vote Tory then you fucking idiots
Get fucked Sue. No time for bleating Tory voting pensioners anymore.
They should try affording to live on today’s wages pay rent and try saving up anything without the help of wealthy family to give you any money
We’ve been royally fucked
Cry me a river. Your income went up by more than most peoples wages.
Try being any younger; we won’t get to your blessed privileged position that you’re taking for granted in the first place – thanks to how most of you vote.
maybe they should have saved more, cut out morning coffee and holidays. It’s weird that they didn’t take their own advice.
Boohoo. The generation that has shafted everyone else by voting Brexit, Conservatives, and is responsible for the housing situation of this country is now insulted.
Imagine being a millennial working every hour you can to still run out of money, knowing you won’t own your home or retire, we are paying for their retirements, it’s a sick joke.
You’re getting a pension. My generation will have to drop dead while stacking shelves at ASDA