"pamela" wrote in message
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On 10:33 19 Nov 2017, tim... wrote:



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On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 17:40:46 -0000, tim...
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On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 14:38:58 +0000 (GMT), Dave Plowman
(News) wrote:

In article ,
Mark wrote:
Go for the basics. The basic OAP for a single person
(assuming full contribution years) is £119 The basic
uneployment benefit if under 25
is
£57. Both can be supplemented by means tested benefits
if eligible.

Now either one is super generous or one is parsimonious.

IMHO neither are generous.

Quite. Thus if you agree 119 isn't generous for a single
OAP to live on,


That £119 figure is incorrect.

The current pension starts at £155

No it doesn't

It does if you are paid up.

only if fully paid up NOT contracted out



It is a pretence by HMG that it does.

Did they fool you?

Yes they did

with 35 years contributions it comes as a surprise that my
pension expectation is 120 pounds something

tim

If you have spend years working in Europe then presumably you
didn't make all the qualifying payment into the UK state pension
system you could have.

for much of my time I worked on what is now called an "A1" basis

It's left as an exercise for the reader to find out what that is

tim