Valued members of society ?

No inheritance tax in Australia well RF don't pay inheritance tax either, how do they get away with it.

I have been getting this 25p for nearly 3 years now.
I pondered when I first received it as to what to do so decided to buy a bottle of own brand gin (it won’t run to decent stuff) each year end.
I shall be buying my third one next month.
Just a suggestion?

They can't do away with it without incorporating those amounts into the State Pension for everyone which would then be subject to the rises in the State Pension.
Like the Fuel Allowance introduced by Gordon Brown, a set amount.

They're not daft, are they.

My DH is 80 in a months time so is also due the extra 25 p!!! I agree with Lemon it is an anachronism, like the £10 Christmas bonus! Both need to be binned imo! DH is careful with money so he won't be frittering it away which is a relief!!!!!?

suziewoozie

But there is no inheritance tax in Australia I believe so nice for the haves

For their heirs, yes, but it doesn't help them

Most of us here in the UK wouldn't be in that bracket anyway.

Save it up for something really special, EllanVannin
Start planning

suziewoozie

Call just as I posted.

Yes, I should rtft!!

It'll make up for the half-stamp ( married women's ) of which I had no choice at the time and also my late H's Merchant Navy pension which he hadn't filled in because he'd been too ill.
Anything else that comes my way---I'm saying nothing.

paddyanne

LEMONGROVE according to the letter its what shes entitled to as she reached her 80Th birthday .I'm sorry what the "lords" get as opposed to what pensioners get is highly relevant .Both are paid by the taxpayer ,yet the Lord will get his gold plated pension with huge sums added at regular intervals.isn't it £5o,ooo they mentioned recently and a woman who worked her socks off until well past retirement age while raising a family gets less than A pound every 28 days or 13pounds a YEAR ,There is something very wrong with the way WM is run ,they certainly aren't behaving like the public servants they should be .

I don't understand what you mean, paddyanne about the woman who worked her socks off getting a pound every 28 days etc.
That is not her total pension, nor is it her pension rise. It's just an anachronism which has never been adjusted in nearly 50 years.

If she is a taxpayer then in a few months time she may get a letter saying she owes a small amount of tax.
Then she may get another letter saying that she is owed a tiny amount of tax back.

This 25p a week causes more bother than it's worth.
But is it worth getting so upset about?

Oh, goody goody, is this what I'll have to look forward to in a couple of months time ? Yippee .

Mind you, I shouldn't really grumble as I had an unusually " large " increase in my state pension in April ? I didn't question it in case they'd made a mistake so I'll keep my mouth shut.

But there is no inheritance tax in Australia I believe so nice for the haves

Call my post to you was referring to the 25p rise

Call just as I posted.

paddyanne

Are you saying that because there has always been inequality that it fine? No wonder this world is in the mess it is ,that beggers belief .23 PENCE A WEEK extra for someone turning 80 ..and £23 A DAY for an entitled old begger who sits/ 'sleeps all day and already gets £300+ A DAY for just turning up.I'd rather not be in your type of country

You could emigrate, of course.
I think you may find that if you had chosen, for example, Australia, that you may not get any pension whatsoever as it is means tested. It would also cost you a considerable amount for healthcare. Income tax is also higher.

The whole of Parliament is an anachronistic disgrace, really. Based on gentlemanly conduct and a code of honour which can be flouted with absolute impunity.

My Mum received her extra 25p a week when she reached 80. This was 10 years ago. So it hasn't even increased in that time. I remember being flabbergasted at the time that being 80 was rewarded with such a paltry sum.

DH is saving his 25p's up for something special. He may be able to buy a pint of beer at the pub when this is all over.
It's not a 'rise', as the rise in pensions is annual. It is an age allowance awarded to those aged 80 by Ted Heath in 1971.

I think we do need a 2nd Chamber as a check, but not one stuffed with old cronies of H of C politicians to skew the voting figures.

We don’t need a cull of the House of Lords - we need a complete review of it. Do we need a second chamber? If so ( and many countries do have one because they play a vital role) how should members be selected? The present format is fundamentally undemocratic and the daily attendance allowance is not the real issue is it? It’s a useful dead cat to froth about when really it’s the fundamental nature of the institution which is completely rotten. In its current format, it does actually make positive contributions and there are a good number of hard working peers but that doesn’t make up for the fact it’s an anachronistic disgrace in a so-called democracy.

Time there was a cull in the House of Lords.

I think the journalist should look closer to home Grany I know someone who lives in Italy and they tell a different story.

How can anyone find it acceptable? Personally I find it nauseating

I know such a Lordgrannynannywannny he's my friends uncle ,one of Tony Blairs boys was union now more tory than Boris .Signs in and then off ,boasts about how many cruises he and his partner take every year ,makes me physically sick to think I once had respect for him as I believed he worked FOR people not just for what he can get

The £10 Christmas bonus was never uprated either

Everyone who gets a state pension gets 25p a week rise when they get to 80. It was introduced by Heath in 1971 and never uprated

LEMONGROVE according to the letter its what shes entitled to as she reached her 80Th birthday .I'm sorry what the "lords" get as opposed to what pensioners get is highly relevant .Both are paid by the taxpayer ,yet the Lord will get his gold plated pension with huge sums added at regular intervals.isn't it £5o,ooo they mentioned recently and a woman who worked her socks off until well past retirement age while raising a family gets less than A pound every 28 days or 13pounds a YEAR ,There is something very wrong with the way WM is run ,they certainly aren't behaving like the public servants they should be .

paddyanne It beggars belief that the House of Lords members receive over £300 a day just to turn up. No work needed. They can about turn and go home. Or they can have a heavily subsided meal washed down with a few cheap drinks and have a snooze on the premises before going home.

Back in the real work unpaid family carers receive £67 a week carers allowance while providing 24hr care for a loved one. Many do it until their own health fails and then they are thrown on the scrap heap and ignored by the government.

The government know they do it out of love and they have them over the proverbial barrel