Reverse the State Pension Law

The petition Reverse the State Pension Law is currently at 52,316. I am handing it in on Tuesday 24th March - details here:-
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/events/petition-hand-in-reverse-the-state-pension-law

Please sign and share, the more signatures the bigger the impact.

Thanks
Anne
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/statepensionlaw

I too signed this petition long ago, but started my own on 38 Degrees because of the worse to come with the Flat Rate Pension, that needs to be passed around by word of mouth to silver surfers to help their children losing everything from 2016.

Getting back the state pension at 60 does not help many who are being left with no money at all from 2016 - your children turning 60 daughters from 2013 and sons 65 from 2013 so need to revoke the Flat Rate Pension bill as well:

- housewives lose the 60 per cent state pension from husband's contributions
- widows no longer inherit husband's state pension
- divorcees no longer able to get a pension from husband's contributions
- end of small pension when turn 80 from 2016, which is either any money or to top up a basic pension on pro rata low level

- End of Pension Credit for new claimants from 2016

- End of State Earnings Related Pension and State Second Pension, so no triple lock guaranteed annual rise for these additional pensions.

Only about 30 per cent of new claimants will get the full flat rate, as need fully paid up SERPs / S2P and NI credits rise from 30 years now to 35 years from 2016.

Those working less than 14 hours per week / earning less than £109 (2013 figure) had not realised they were not paying NI, so will never get a state pension. This is also within my petition as housewives losing a part of husband's contribution, also get no state pension from this or if have less than 10 years NI credits, and you might care to pass that around by word of mouth to family and friends.

https:// you .38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

Remember that the state pension is not a benefit, but comes from the ring fenced full National Insurance Fund, that has not needed a top up from tax for decades, despite all the hype about people living longer, that has not had one effect on the viability of the NI Fund.

Even the Pensioners Convention wrongly believe that the NI Fund can be emptied to pay off national debt or for general expenditure by government. The NI Fund is not a tax and so must be kept full, surplus to the rate of 8 weeks cash in hand.

So far 530,000 women are effected by loss of state pension payout from 2013, which you can receive and stay in work.

Women MPs kept pension payout at 60 from 2012, as did men MPs at 65 from 2012.

The state pension is paid by 12 per cent compulsory National Insurance Contributions for each job above 16 hours, plus your boss's NI contributions for you.

Unlike Anne, am disabled and chronic sick so cannot post as much as Anne is able, so need help to pass my petition by word of mouth, which needs to also be signed because the Flat Rate Pension destroys all state pension for many women, even those turning 80 from 2016. Thank you.

Done, and shared.

Signed and shared on face book

Done

Done it

Hi, just a quick update on the petition. It currently stands at 13,488!

Thanks to all for your ongoing support and emails.

Please continue to share this link.

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Thanks
Anne

I signed earlier and have reposted the link on FB... I'm already caught by the 66years threshold, I don't want it to go any higher, especially as other countries in the EU (France I think) are at 62 years!

Just a quick update re epetition - it now stands at 7166. Thanks for signing and please keep sharing.

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thanks
Anne

The fact that MP's, Judges and Civil Servants, who are within 10 years of normal retirement age, have been given transitional protection only rubs salt in the wounds.

Please sign and share this e-petition. Adding your own comment really encourages people to sign. Thanks.

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The loss of state pension age at 60 began back in 1995, but over the years the pension age has been raised, and even 2 years back went from 64 to 66 for many.

But now there is a group of people being left penniless.

In 2013, many thousands of even terminal or multi amputee disabled, will lose all their disability money.

Most of the women in their 50s who are unemployed now are Long Term Sick or Disabled

Assumptions have been made by wealthy politicians, that women in their 50s are still in work. When it is women in their 50s, having worked their way to the top of their pay scale of the basic grades, who will be the ones made redundant by early retirement packages from the half a million public sector posts that will be lost by 2015. And since the economic crisis began in 2008, the rate unemployment in those in their 50s has risen by fully 50%, in a society that is ageist in recruitment to those in their 50s.

Women in their 50s have little or no savings or works pensions. The savings are barely enough to last a year, never mind a decade. And works pensions can be very low indeed as women in their 50s have had breaks in service on gone part time for child and elder care commitments.

And so I face a future in a house frozen with unaffordable central heating never switched on, even on the coldest nights. I am not alone in facing a future that is uncertain if not life threatening. Because I never started on disability money even though medically diagnosed for a decade. I was turned down for various daft reasons, even taking into account a GP's report that said absolutely nothing as he did not assess my disability and never asked me.

What I was told was that I had to have such a disordered mind that I could not plan a journey and needed to be supervised when out of the house, which means that physical disability is being ignored.

Disability claims are routinely turned down now, and the appeals are done not with medical professionals but just solicitors. Very few get through successfully, and when they do there is no respite, as a short time they must claim all over again. There is beginning to be death shortly after being assessed as fit for work in claimants from the original illness they said made them unfit for work.

The raising of the pension age whilst cutting benefits and piling on higher taxes on energy bills, taking away Council Tax benefit in April next year, in a triple dip recession when young able bodied people cannot find work, is an Austerity that threatens life and limb.

I have signed the petition because France's leader Monsieur Hollande was allowed by Europe to reinstate the state pension at 60. If he can do it, so can we.

Some fanciful ideas for a new party were put on my personal website, with policies on a drop down menu.
www.staffordshire-vote-english.org

The other party is a real one, registered with the Electoral Commission, but has little about pensioners other than Fair Pensions.

Done it - it doesn't affect me, but I know many people who will be affected.