The Joys of the Elderly...

[Fozzer]

Hello, Chums... ...!

I've got to tell you this...
..just for a laugh......!

I had a very nice letter this morning from the Department of Work and Pensions, informing me that if I can struggle on until my 80th. Birthday, (I'm 74 at the mo'), I will be entitled to an extra

[expat]

25 pence, Fozzer you are being very self centered here. How else are those poor MP's going to be able to pay for their

[Hagar]

[quote]I had a very nice letter this morning from the Department of Work and Pensions, informing me that if I can struggle on until my 80th. Birthday, (I'm 74 at the mo'), I will be entitled to an extra

[Fozzer]

...... Being a MP is an unrewarded and unappreciated job. I mean, sometimes they must stay at work until about 20:00 mass-debating.

Matt

Mass-Debating...?

..Did you spell that correctly?... ...!

They obviously get more joy out of "that", than I will get out of my extra 200 gram tin of Basic Baked Beans... ...!

Paul....LOL... ...!

[expat]

...... Being a MP is an unrewarded and unappreciated job. I mean, sometimes they must stay at work until about 20:00 mass-debating.

Matt

Mass-Debating...?

..Did you spell that correctly?... ...!

No, but then we are a family forum


Matt

[ozzy72]

Whoa 25 pence!!! That is a about what a bottle of beer costs here Paul My 25p is more useful than yours

[FLYING_TRUCKER]

Good morning all...

Here in the colony the prisoners in the Federal and Provincial Institutions get more a month than our Senior Citizens who have paid into the pension plan all their lives.

They now also get the vote in prison, rooms supplied to have sex with whoever, three square meals a day plus snacks, television, computers, weight rooms (that cops and firemen could only wish for) and now they want a union.   LMAO

Only in Canada you say.

Veterans Canada...a  joke...they can't spend the interest on the money they have a year, they have so much.  But, veterans can't seem to get anything out of them.  
One poor old girl we spoke to at the Royal Canadian Legion served overseas during World War 2, her husband did the same and had to stay with the occupation of Europe for several years.  He was wounded and still went back in the line.
When he died because she had a retirement pension from a large grocery chain here they took his Veterans Pension away from her.  They said she had too much income and didn't need it.  She fought them twice and lost.

Can of beans Paul...your lucky...some seniors here can either afford food or heat but not both.  
The money we send to foreign aid could be better spent here...yup only in Canada you say.  

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

[Romulus111VADT]

Well, the American "Social Security Administration" have screwing it's citizens down to a fine art.

[commoner]

...mmmm....well Fozz look at it this way, that's

[Rifleman]

Paul.....enjoy those beans to the fullest extent of your ability and when they come to pass, .....capture their essence in a bottle and return the said product of your "extra" income to the powers that be, and hope they open your gift to them in a small closed room with as many of their associates as possible...........

[Fozzer]

A very large bottle at the ready, Ken.. ...!

Paul... ...!

[Brett_Henderson]

[quote]Well, the American "Social Security Administration" have screwing it's citizens down to a fine art.

[expat]

Well, the American "Social Security Administration" have screwing it's citizens down to a fine art.  ;)

They first announce a 3% increase for cost of living. Then a week or so later they announce that the medical care benefits have gotten better, but the cost of those benefits went up 6%.  :o

Can anyone remember the last time the cost of living ever went up just 3%? I think it averages out to something like 10% per year for the entire country. It varies greatly depending on where you live.

Most people on Social Security are far below the poverty level.  ::)

I guarantee if the government officials that make these rules up had to live on Social Security, it would be allot different. The thing that piss's me off the most is, the money we get is money we earned after a lifetime of work. It was deducted from every pay check we ever got and supposedly matched by our employers.

The sad thing is... that if all the money paid into  Social Security was used just for Social Security; the system would be well funded and able to pay out a decent pension to everyone (that was the original promise when the system was enacted, to justify another tax). When the system started building up a significant balance (like any pension system should), crooked politicians couldn't STAND the idea of all that money  just sitting there... and slowly found ways to suck it off and spend it to ensure their re-election. Now the system is bankrupt.  :'(


**and they want us to trust them when they promise universal health care  ::)  **


Too political  ??  :-?  

If anyone else was to "remove" money from a pension fund, it would be fraud. I want to be a politician when I grow up

Matt

[Romulus111VADT]

[quote][quote]Well, the American "Social Security Administration" have screwing it's citizens down to a fine art.

[eno]

I popped into my Trusty Supermarket this morning to see what delights I could purchase with this extra weekly windfall...

...and lo and behold...I can treat myself to an extra, small, 200 gram, tin of Sainsbury's Basic Baked Beans...per week...

Now now Paul don't get too excited about those beans .... with inflation going the way it is by the time you get that 25p it'll only be worth 15p and those beans will have gone up to 30p  :-/ :-/