Yippee, looks like my pension may be safe after all...
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BT to put £2 billion in to their pension fund.
Campbell Brodie-
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Vera Lynn-
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Well im not happy as i was 60 in january and everyone tells me im a pensioner!! My argument is im not a pensioner until i get a pension and because im too young i dont qualify until im 61 and 9 months.... this is poo as far as im concerned and the bloody goverment are doing me out of nearly 13 thousand pounds.. Im not happy i can tell you...
Campbell Brodie-
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Re: BT to put £2 billion in to their pension fund.
by Campbell Brodie Fri 23 Mar 2012 - 22:01
I don't get my state pension until I'm 66! Equal rights for women indeed!
Mcqueen-
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When BT ring up begging me to go back, I just hang up, Never understood Urdu anyway,The Lone Ranger wrote:Yippee, looks like my pension may be safe after all...
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Campbell Brodie-
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Re: BT to put £2 billion in to their pension fund.
by Campbell Brodie Fri 23 Mar 2012 - 22:09
Mcqueen wrote:When BT ring up begging me to go back, I just hang up, Never understood Urdu anyway,The Lone Ranger wrote:Yippee, looks like my pension may be safe after all...
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I can't fault them, I get BT Infinity for free! And I get to drive round some of the most beautiful country in Britain in my wee van..
Topdog-
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I don't do BT. I can't officially retire until 67, got 2 and a half years until I can claim my company pension at 55, spent me Navy one, my pension is the property, letting it out in a years time.
Mcqueen-
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Is your flashing beacon led or bulb ?, I had a led light bar on my last van, If i had been towing somebody they went into a trance with the flashing, I thought everbody was pissed that broke down 
, I get a firm in now, Them days are over, Twats that your towing trying to overtake you to tell you which way to go, Crazy, Smoke the brakes that much they boiled them, then run into the back of you, Nah, Got the t shirt,
, I get a firm in now, Them days are over, Twats that your towing trying to overtake you to tell you which way to go, Crazy, Smoke the brakes that much they boiled them, then run into the back of you, Nah, Got the t shirt,
Campbell Brodie-
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Re: BT to put £2 billion in to their pension fund.
by Campbell Brodie Fri 23 Mar 2012 - 22:31
I could take my pension just now, but you lose a lot of the lump sum plus so much percent for each year before actual retirement date. I don't know what to do, so I'm leaving it 'til it matures. At least I know I'll get the maximum then. They stopped our "Final Salary" scheme 3 and 1/2 years ago and replaced it with a "Career average related earnings" scheme. I've got 31 years in the final salary scheme and that is protected but you have to be a Philadelphia lawyer to work out what you get under the "CARE" scheme. Our old final salary scheme was based on an 1/80 of final salary x years worked, so if you worked for 40 years you would get a pension of half your final salary per year.
June, this year will mark my 35th year with GPO/BT and I hope to be with them 'til I am 65, another 8 years, which will mean I will have been with them for 43 years.
June, this year will mark my 35th year with GPO/BT and I hope to be with them 'til I am 65, another 8 years, which will mean I will have been with them for 43 years.
Mcqueen-
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Well my mate geof who is exactly to the day one year older than me, Has worked for the NHS for 36 years, Got made redundent a few weeks ago, He earned £36k, He got £32k lump some, And £400 a month pension, Cant manage on that, So he has landed a job on £20k, so he has to work untill he's 65, Before he can bail out, He thinks he's lucky to get a job at his age, What that all about, He doe's try to tell me, But i tell him to shut up