The Greens in their 2014 Spring Conference voted in a new and unique policy set that would save lives of all ages, but especially women born from 1953 and men born from 1951 who face NIL STATE PENSION FOR LIFE from the changes coming with the flat rate pension.
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now
The Greens' 2015 manifesto pledges are:
- universal and automatic Citizen Income, non-withdrawable
to the level of the basic tax allowance
that replaces all the cruel benefits regime leaving people with no food money for months
- Full State Pension to all citizens, irregardless of National Insurance contribution / credit history.
The flat rate pension will leave many women and a lot of men without any state pension, that for so many is their sole food and fuel money in old age.
Just when women MPs keep their works pension at 60 (and men MPs at 65) and, also on the taxpayer, have an 11 per cent pay rise (about the same money as the denied state pension payout) in 2015.
The ring fenced and National Insurance Fund is full, not having needed a top up from tax for decades.
A Labour former deputy prime minister says that there is £30 billion left in the National Insurance Fund, being called a surplus, when this is the denied state pension payout, that is vital food and fuel money for so many of the over 50s / over 60s, who over half are within the working poor or disabled / chronic sick being denied benefit more and more.
but thank goodness I had contributed to SERPs and have a small personal pension.