Pensions being paid while parents are still alive.

Just a stirrer post, I think. Totally illogical.

I see bentley has gone to ground again. Have they come round with his medication? (Oops that wasn't meant to sound quite as unkind as it came out)

I agree gracesmum.
I worked for my first employer for 33 years.
As my pension was paid early as they made me redundant I could be a pensioner for longer than I was working for them.

Frank

Pensions are usually paid for life, Frank - so what's new?

I can only agree with you gracesmum.
I will be a pensioner for the rest of my life.

Frank

Are we aware that some people are in receeipt of pensions while this thread is still alive running ?
Please put it out of its misery!

FlicketyB

I am glad you are not putting me in the same class as Bentley.
If Bentley had his way with care fees for example some of the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren will be bankrupt before they were born.
One thing I must also point out. My father died when he was 89 nearly 90.
I am not saying there was anything wrong with his length of life but his father lived till he was 94 and his mother was 92 when she died.
In theory my father should have lived longer but it does not always follow.
Also when my father was about 88 he did say to the doctor that I have spent more nights in hospital than he had and I think that was correct.

Frank

Please do not tarnish Frank with Bentley's brush. Their postings are very different. As I have already commented Frank is rational.

Frank that is very sad.

Oh well. That's that theory out the window.

petallus

My wife's passing away does illustrate the need for a wider family.
As well as me being upset about it my 2 daughters were very sad to have lost their mother and I have since had 4 granddaughters.
It is a pity my wife did not live to see them.

Frank

j08

Gransnet is the first forum I have ever posted on.
As far as I am aware Gerry joined some time after me.
I have never heard of the Oldie forum.

Frank

Sorry your wife died at such a young age HUNTERF

Grace

By the way, I think you were quite right to get the half of your late wife's pension that was due to you. Well done.

Frank did you come on Gransnet when it took over the Oldie Borum forum?

Only asking because if you did, and Bentley did too, then that might account for the similar posting styles. Perhaps that was how posters did it on the Oldie forum.

Ad nauseam (oops wrong thread )

See what I mean?

gracesmum

My wife died in 2003 and she would have been 60 at the end of 2008.
Under the terms of her pension scheme I was entitled to half her pension from when she would have been 60.
I phoned to ask about it and the person on the other end of the phone said it was very unusual for a spouse to want to claim the pension years after the death.
She did say if it had happened to her she would have not wanted it.
I did insist it was paid and I had to say I would take legal action if they did not pay up.
I was 4 months younger than my wife.
They offered the basic pension from my 60th birthday.
I had to make a fuss to get it from when she would have been 60 and I had to complain to get the AVC and bonus sacrifice element paid as well.
I had to produce the letters in relation to the bonus sacrifices and they did point to a clause that the contents of the letter were confidential to her and her employer.
Too bad. I just said I found these letters after her death when I was sorting out her affairs.

Frank

Could this be a Jekyll and Hyde thing going on? The rational, but obsessive Frank - then comes the full moon and Bentley leaps forth upon an unsuspecting world.

I composed a reply and then thought, why bother? Why respond to a wind-up merchant when there are so many moreinteresting dicussions elsewhere. At least Frank is rational, if a bit obsessive.

Take your point Frank but don't agree! No right to have a dig at anybody claiming a pension to which they are entitled, Still think a wind-up!

gracesmum

I think bently49 could be a senior citizen but his relatives may have passed away well before their sons / daughters retired so he thinks the situation he has described will never affect him.

I know somebody who is 75 and says why should he contribute towards hospitals because he has never used them.
When I questioned him he has never been in hospital overnight but he had used A & E and he has had several tests done in hospital.
Also even though he has been lucky up till now how does he know he will not have to use them in future?.

I think Bentley may have been having a dig at me.

I was claiming my occupational pensions when my father was alive.

Oh I have only had 1 prescription since I was 60 but I don't expect a refund.

Frank

The OP has been exercising me and I challenge bentley49 to explain WHY he started this silly controversial thread. Was it a case of a "genuine" money-saving idea politically slightly to the right of Genghis Khan? Or are you a student in a bedsit somewhere wondering "What will really get the grannies squawking on their perches?" I think it is a total wind-up and I regret not depriving it of the oxygen of publicity, but this sort of tosh just makes me fume when there are much more interesting/amusing/important issues to be debated.