Redtop it's not just money in the bank which is included I Australua. People we know bought a plot of land where they intended to build a retirement house one day and that was included too when assessing whether or not they could receive a pension.
If the UK pension was above the tax threshold, it would be taxed. It's not the fact that it is a pension, it is that it would not usually be above the tax threshold, although, as Maggiemaybe has pointed out, if SERPS was added, that is possible.
Have any of you got all electric cars? Pros and cons please.