Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

For cynic,

I am glad we don't have any secrets.

2517 thank you .
but waiting for a certain poster lets see if he agrees

Wheres hays ?.

Widows could lose their historic right to a pension under plans to halt the ‘terminal decline’ of final salary schemes.

Private sector bosses currently have to make payments to a retired worker’s surviving spouse, typically worth at least half their full pension.

But that obligation would end under proposals from the Department for Work and Pensions.


the people making the decisions on gold plated pensions sticking the knife in to the private sector workers .
you could not make this up
a dam disgrace

out of curiosity, do any of you guys trust pension funds with your money?
i've taken all mine out of their sticky and useless hands and put my pot primarily into bricks and mortar, with any spare cash generated from the rentals to be put into SIPP shares of my choosing

PRIVATE sector workers to pay for immigrants pensions
this is why retirement age to rise to 70 to be announced after the next election
and make it legal for private employers to with hold pensions till they reach the pension age . and save companies money in the hope that they will not live to take the pension .

this government is EVIL

CAMERON is a very dishonest piece of turd

that's good news CYNIC

TANKER and whos in charge of the Dept For Work And Pensions??.

Mind having said that he'l blame his Civil Servant aids as per usual.

Flexible defined benefit

The Government proposes to remove restrictions that make it compulsory for defined benefit pensions to increase every year with inflation and provide survivor's rights for members.


This means employers will continue to provide a pension income based on a worker's earnings - such as their final salary, or career average - but that it will not have to provide annual increases on this amount, or continue payments to a spouse once the pension-holder dies.


Employers will still take on the risk of having to provide a retirement income, while the employee will have to bear the risk of protecting themselves from future inflation, and find a way of providing for their partners after they die.

Employers could also be given the option of further limiting their financial liabilities by changing workers' pension ages, to reflect the rising life expectancy in the UK.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/pensions/article-2490272/New-blueprint

in plain English it means push up retirement day and hope they die
and never get a penny .

a government forcing the poor into paying money into a pension which over 60% will never get a penny back they will DIE

NHS will not be their for them in the future immigration as fcuked up the NHS and another 10million to be in the uk in 20 years that's over 70 million who is going to pay their pension.
answer we will bring in another 40million to pay their pensions

This stinks........ or continue payments to a spouse once the pension-holder dies.

These Tories only look after the very rich, and they arent doing a very good job of that either.

it seems to me that pension rules, like trust rules, change about every 5 years, the intent being to benefit solely the exchequer (+ accountants and lawyers)

Indeed indeed.

HITLER would have been proud of this GOVERNMENT this government are way ahead
of being evil HITLER was not I their league he was a saint .

Just out on twitter.....

Matthew Bayley ‏@MattBayleySky 4m
All in this together? EXC @Jeremy_Hunt in line for £17m windfall in private equity deal for his education business @MarkKleinmanSky reveals

Where is Noo Labour and the unions?


A deafening silence from the friends of the working man.

cynic a few times we agree and we do on this issue it stinks
this government are just plain EVIL

This new semi-compulsory pension whereby you have to opt out (every 3 years) so as not to be included will be a disaster imo. Off now until monday as away for a weekend break.
2517

the news today . my wife who is only 59 as now decided to retire she was going to work till she was 65 . now January
its not worth waiting we will spend more time on hol and spend our money in spain