On 06/02/2018 17:44, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Fredxx was thinking very hard :
Deserved? Paid by others who do work?

I have paid considerably more than my share into the system in the years
I worked.


Everyone can say they "have done more than my bit".

I suppose they could, but would it be true?

And you expect others to retire at a much later age than yourself and
still say you've "done your bit".

I am only getting back some of what I put into the system - other than
my pension entitlement, I get nothing else from the system at all. No
free rent, no housing benefit, no council tax reductions - nothing. I
was one of those who worked hard, earned well and saved for my
retirement. I always paid full tax and full NI, made no use of the NHS.

Most under PAYE pay "full tax and full NI"? So do those on the dole.

Younger people are having to retire later, because they are expected
to live longer than I.

That's ********, they are not going to live much longer at all.

This in part a result of the much healthier world
I and those like me have helped create for them. They are not working
longer to pay for me.

You haven't paid for their improved lifestyle.

They are working longer, and they are paying your state benefit.