In article , Andrew
writes
On 19/11/2017 10:53, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Yellow wrote:
I'm talking about the basic pension that all will be getting.

Which is now £155 (plus the inflation increases since it was
introduced).
More ********. I'm an OAP and don't get anything like 155 per week.


If you had no other income, and savings less than ~£16,000 then you
would be entitled to receive pension credits and other handouts that
would make it up to that amount.

That's the "old" pension scheme - and possibly the intermediate
transitional scheme until the new pension scheme is fully in place.
The self-employed benefit most so one would think it reasonable that
they pay a bit more NI to fund it.
--
bert