Fuck the state pension. It’s one of the reasons were in this mess.
Well, at least we’re all in it together for once I guess. Perhaps now pensioners will understand what the employed, especially those on lower wages, have been raging about.
And let’s not forget that the pensioners don’t have to pay the NI increase that all but the lowest salaried have to.
I find it very hard to have any sympathy for the group of people who have the most wealth, the lowest out goings, and (in general) have voted for this shitshow time and time again.
Yes, there will be many individual pensioners who did not and/or who are on the breadline and need to seek further help. I do feel sorry for them.
It’s intentional. The government doesn’t like having the safety net and it’s easy prey for them. Tory voters seem to hate anyone who dares to use the system and there’s a misbelief that only unemployed use the system. Worse, rags like the Daily Mail love to attack the unemployed and drag out one example of someone milking the system when 99.9% of people rely on the system to not starve, not get evicted.
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I seriously doubt the state pension will exist by the time i’m 70(I’m almost 30) and DWP is fucking useless most of the time. When I was unemployed for 6 years, the help I recieved was awful. Mostly workplacements that lead to nothing, courses that pretty much wasted my time etc.. I only got my current job because I walked into the local hotel at the right time and ended up being ambushed with an interview after being asked to fill out an application form.
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The entire system needs to be overhauled. People should not be having to rely on it to top up their wages or being forced to decide if it’s worth skipping a day or two’s meals just so they can heat up their place.
State pension should be abolished and merged with unemployment benefits.
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Fuck the state pension. It’s one of the reasons were in this mess.
Well, at least we’re all in it together for once I guess. Perhaps now pensioners will understand what the employed, especially those on lower wages, have been raging about.
And let’s not forget that the pensioners don’t have to pay the NI increase that all but the lowest salaried have to.
I find it very hard to have any sympathy for the group of people who have the most wealth, the lowest out goings, and (in general) have voted for this shitshow time and time again.
Yes, there will be many individual pensioners who did not and/or who are on the breadline and need to seek further help. I do feel sorry for them.
It’s intentional. The government doesn’t like having the safety net and it’s easy prey for them. Tory voters seem to hate anyone who dares to use the system and there’s a misbelief that only unemployed use the system. Worse, rags like the Daily Mail love to attack the unemployed and drag out one example of someone milking the system when 99.9% of people rely on the system to not starve, not get evicted.
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I seriously doubt the state pension will exist by the time i’m 70(I’m almost 30) and DWP is fucking useless most of the time. When I was unemployed for 6 years, the help I recieved was awful. Mostly workplacements that lead to nothing, courses that pretty much wasted my time etc.. I only got my current job because I walked into the local hotel at the right time and ended up being ambushed with an interview after being asked to fill out an application form.
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The entire system needs to be overhauled. People should not be having to rely on it to top up their wages or being forced to decide if it’s worth skipping a day or two’s meals just so they can heat up their place.
State pension should be abolished and merged with unemployment benefits.