What are you all up to today? - part 3
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Quiet on here Got my £10 Xmas pressie from the 'guv' today
Just checked our account OH got his but nothing for me
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I've just checked our accounts and we both have our £10. 'We're in the money'....
Decided to look it up,
It was launched by Ted Heath's Tory government in 1972, back then the £10 Xmas boost was worth more than the £6.75 basic state pension.
The basic pension is now £95.25 a week.I think you will find its £155.65 per week now.
Seems like we are both wrong, mine was a copy/paste from an ancient source , basic single pension seems to be £119.30 per week on the current
gov site.£119.30 is the old pension Dave, I was born after 6th April 1953, just. I get the new state pension £155.65 (1951 for men)
Yes Brue I edited.
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well, nice cycle ride over to our local (20+ ml round trip) Waitrose for a few 3 for £10s,
3 panniers full....
2 turtle doves, etc.....
nice pot of tea and a Yumyum for the journey home...
all this talk of cruises etc, certsinly gets the juices flowing...
BIL has taken a large 4 bed house in Florida from 12th Dec, for a couple of weeks, taking our two nieces to Disney and Universal....back on Xmas Eve....
apparently, all we need to do is book the flight......so tempting
Go for it you know you wanna
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well, nice cycle ride over to our local (20+ ml round trip) Waitrose for a few 3 for £10s,
3 panniers full....
2 turtle doves, etc.....
nice pot of tea and a Yumyum for the journey home...
all this talk of cruises etc, certsinly gets the juices flowing...
BIL has taken a large 4 bed house in Florida from 12th Dec, for a couple of weeks, taking our two nieces to Disney and Universal....back on Xmas Eve....
apparently, all we need to do is book the flight......so tempting
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Go on BB. You know you want to.
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No probs , brue and Tammygirl, pensions are so confusing what with dates, ages, hoops to jump through. Whatever, the £10 whilst welcome today was certainly very welcome in monetary terms when first introduced
It certainly must have been. I was suprised (don't know why) at how little a pension was then. We got married in 1972 and I know I was earning more than that paltry sum.
Dave the only reason I was aware of the differance is because I have only just got mine so its still all very new to me.
Brue same here whenever I get any back from them its always welcome. Haven't got the £10 yet though
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We've been on a wild goose chase for car parts today, I was hoping for a leisurely stroll round town but no....OH has repaired two old cars for family and neighbours, got them going til the next thing conks out.
Snap! OH has been doing the repairs on a friends old car to get it through its mot , hunting round for parts . Passed the mot until next
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Not a good day, computer problems at work , really annoying ! Was glad to get home.
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How frustrating Helen. Hope tomorrow is better.
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We shall leave our bookings until it is quietened down a bit brue. Luckily we are not tied down to specific times and dates.
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Thanks , Brue and Millie, just hoping I can get everything done tomorrow that I wasn't able to do today .
We will be away for frenzy day! Haven't given next year much thought yet, only that we want to get up to yorkshire at some point .
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To clarify an earlier point......the basic state pension might be £119 per week (can't remember the figures just now) but people get an amount based on their NI contributions......so can get more or less than this.
The minimum guarantee amount for someone of state pension age for a woman is £155.......so if you get less than this, it will be topped up by Pension Credit. However, any other income will be taken into account, so you may not get the full top up.
Incidently, if you do get Pension Credi (the Guarantee part, not the Savings part - which you can only get at 65) you will be eligible for full Housing Benefit and full Council Tax Reduction.
Don't you just love all tbes benefits rules? I do wonder how people who haven't been trained in the benefits system are supposed to know
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That's where Ian and CAB are so valuable.
PS We haven't thought about next year yet either. Lots of possibilities but no definite decisions yet.
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Thanks , Brue and Millie, just hoping I can get everything done tomorrow that I wasn't able to do today .
We will be away for frenzy day! Haven't given next year much thought yet, only that we want to get up to yorkshire at some point .
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If you want to go to Yorkshire Helen I can recommend Serenity camping at Hinderwell. They have a website.
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Anybody there?
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Thanks , Brue and Millie, just hoping I can get everything done tomorrow that I wasn't able to do today .
We will be away for frenzy day! Haven't given next year much thought yet, only that we want to get up to yorkshire at some point .
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If you want to go to Yorkshire Helen I can recommend Serenity camping at Hinderwell. They have a website.
It's one of the sites on our list Millie.
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Quiet on here Got my £10 Xmas pressie from the 'guv' today
Just checked our account OH got his but nothing for me
We get our pensions weekly, last year it was paid with the first week in December, so we thought it might come today.......and it did!
Trying to decide what to spend it on now!
OH says it is already spent on our fuel bills!
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Well there won't be soon...see you all on Wednesday, at some point?!
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Quiet on here Got my £10 Xmas pressie from the 'guv' today
Just checked our account OH got his but nothing for me
Write your comments here...
I've just checked our accounts and we both have our £10. 'We're in the money'....
Decided to look it up,
It was launched by Ted Heath's Tory government in 1972, back then the £10 Xmas boost was worth more than the £6.75 basic state pension.
The basic pension is now £95.25 a week.I think you will find its £155.65 per week now.
Seems like we are both wrong, mine was a copy/paste from an ancient source , basic single pension seems to be £119.30 per week on the current
gov site.£119.30 is the old pension Dave, I was born after 6th April 1953, just. I get the new state pension £155.65 (1951 for men)
Yes Brue I edited.
Unfortunately, most of us really old OAPs are on the old scheme......there are now 3 different ones operating.
We are on the original scheme where a man needed 44 years for full pension, but could claim for his wife as a dependant.
I only have 37 UK years so am on a reduced pension, but could claim an extra 60% for OH when I retired. Once she reached 60, that became her pension, and her tax liability.
Then there were a few years when you only needed 30 years for full pension,my friend is on that scheme, he could not claim anything for his (much younger) wife, she has to wait till she reaches her own state pension age.
Now we have the so called flat rate pension that TG is getting, more generous for some but those contracted out can suffer. To get this you need 35 years contributions for the full amount. And as far as I know there is no addition for spouses?
It is all really confusing! Is it fair? I have no idea!
Just glad that as I worked in Norway before coming to live here, I can claim some pension there too, though no extra for OH.
It is subject to currency fluctuations, so the amount cannot be depended upon unfortunately.
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My basic, due to reduced years is around £105, but with graduated and non contracted out years, I get just over £160. OH only gets 60% of my basic, so just over £60.
The way my company pension is structured means it delivers 60% of my final salary, taking the full single person state pension as part of that, so I do seriously lose our there.
Fortunately the Norwegian state pension is good compared to the UK one, so even though I only get a fraction of the full amount, it does make up for what I have lost here.
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Yes the contracted out bit can make a big differance to the new pension. Luckily I only lose a small amount, however my company pension is considerably greater. OH loses more than me but again his Military pension more than makes up for it. As I worked in
Germany for a period and paid German tax I could in theory claim a small part towards my pension, but as under the new pension I already have full contributions I haven't bothered.0 -
Quiet on here
Got my £10 Xmas pressie from the 'guv' todayOh good, more grist to the mill, whenever it arrives!
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Oh mine again.
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