Fredxx wrote on 05/02/2018 :
Not enough has been paid in, and workers wages pay your pension.

It is a state benefit, even if you don't like it called one.

I think you will find all taxes are paid in, and then paid out again, usually
more than the monies paid in.

Where the .gov source it from is not my problem, the point is I paid
into the pot when I was working, so that when I retired I would get
some of what I had paid in back.