Nic Millar
@NJM71
Pensions, GIFs, hiking, Lake District, and some other stuff. Opinions are my own 🏞🏞
THE UK STATE PENSION - A THREAD You must have known this was on its way .... and here it is! Please spare a second to retweet and add any comments 🙏 1/6
Absolutely not. The triple lock costs x3 more than expected, younger people don't have lovely DB pensions & some can't afford to save into DC - increasing the state pension age >67 is an unacceptable trade-off for keeping the triple lock for 13m pensioners. Target need, not age.
It's not going to solve any problems right now, but it's pretty crazy that the UK isn't hiking the state pension age for people 20yrs and more away from retirement to start flattening this line out.
The state pension will have to be taken away because it's unsustainable. State pension age must rise to 80. And the rest .. I challenge anybody to find a more painful or enervating topic than the state pension side of Twitter/X.
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I'm with @pensionscanwork on this, love social part of social media! 4 movies with iconic duos: The Blues Brothers Tom & Jerry (yes, there was a movie!) Lethal Weapon Toy Story Let's tag @CaltonWMTom @MortgageMikeN2 @Neil_Ryner @TheWhiskyBloke @NJM71..To give Nic a break from SP!
I was just a kid when I heard the opening riff to Paranoid blasting out from my brother's bedroom. Surprised Ozzy even made it to 76 but man, what a life. RIP #OzzyOsbourne 🎸
Black Sabbath makes history today. It will be their final concert and Ozzy Osbourne's farewell to retirement. In honor of the band, here are their best performances. A thread 🧵 1. Paranoid (1970)
I shared this earlier But, also worth noting the sleight of hand he used Relying on people not understanding big numbers He quoted the ADDITIONAL annual cost of the triple lock (£15 billion) compared to the TOTAL amount spent on universal credit (£40 billion) The total…
It would be wrong to scrap the pensions triple lock to cover the cost of spiralling welfare. Pensioners on fixed incomes shouldn’t pay the price for a broken system.
The triple lock IS spiralling welfare
It would be wrong to scrap the pensions triple lock to cover the cost of spiralling welfare. Pensioners on fixed incomes shouldn’t pay the price for a broken system.
Unless *we* act, tomorrow's pensioners will be poorer than today because people who are saving aren't saving enough & almost half of the working population can't afford to save at all but the triple lock stays. Interesting to see what the state pension age review will determine.
The work and pensions secretary has announced a review of the state pension age, explaining that almost half of the working age population isn't saving anything for their retirement Full story ➡️ trib.al/OMEm1Or
Ordered food off Uber Eats and the driver profile said the delivery man was deaf. So I went on YouTube to learn how to sign "thank you" and practised a few times in the mirror. Anyway, a different delivery guy turned up 😂 but at least I've learned something today.
Someone just tweeted me and said we can’t afford to have 20–25% of the population on PIP. So, as a PSA: 20–25% of the population AREN’T on PIP. 20–25% of the disabled population are on PIP. The percentage of the whole population is 5.5%. #TakingThePIP
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Been blocked for not knowing "pension basics" but I really wish people would take time to understand this. NI Credits for childcare, caring, sickness, disability, unemployment, is a fundamental feature of the state pension - yet so many people think it's based solely on NI paid.
No, it isn't. You don't have to pay NI to earn qualifying years that count towards the state pension. It's nothing like a "pension scheme".
Clueless. Talking about cutting "welfare" which only seems to mean working-age benefits & doesn't understand that the state pension + triple lock is also welfare. Part of the reason we're in this mess is because so many politicians don't understand how the benefits system works.
"The triple lock is a Conservative policy. That's not something I'm changing." Sky's @robpowellnews questions Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch on her policy on welfare payments and the pensions triple lock. 📱 trib.al/qNpFzE6 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube
Politicians need to be honest about pensioner benefits needing to be curtailed. I've mentioned this once or twice, but reforming the ridiculously expensive and unnecessary state pension triple lock given to all 13m pensioners would be a start. And not in a few years' time - now.
📈 Our welfare state is unsustainable. 👥 Young people simply won’t get the same pension benefits as their parents — politicians need to be honest about it. 👇
🚨📝 NEW COLUMN Britain is sleepwalking into fiscal catastrophe The triple lock is emblematic of this - even if it was right to introduce it, the policy's time has surely passed Yet all political parties are full-square behind it Which leader will be bold enough to, er, lead?