Mature Times - Pensions & Benefits

Why is Britain penalising its overseas pensioners?

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:16:18 +0100

I am sure that someone has brought up this point, but in case they have not here are my concerns about British pensions - as seen from afar. I live in the USA.

No country for old men

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:53:47 +0100

Further to your articles regarding older people living alone, especially men, I believe the film "No country for old men" should be renamed: "England- no country for old men." I am, of course, one of the two million loners.

Oh, to be a Channel Islander!

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:41:37 +0100

A single person's pension of £167.50 ... housing for £36 a week ... no road tax ... criminals serve their full sentence ...why can't our parliament not take lessons from the Channel Islands?

We've had the vision - now can we have our pension please?

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:23:40 +0100

Pensions Minister Mike O’Brien’s homily is merely cynical hypocrisy when he writes: "We must begin to free our minds from some of the prejudices about ageing". He must first free the minds of his DWP colleagues from their prejudice against half the expatriate pensioners, 500,000 people overwhelmingly in the major Commonwealth countries who are denied annual uprating, their pensions frozen for all time.

New Labour? Baah!

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:57:27 +0100

This government promised us a fair pension and the end of means-tested benefits. They lied.

NHS at 60: ask the patients - but will they be heard?

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:07:27 +0100

As the NHS prepares to celebrate its 60th birthday on July 5th, we are asking readers to tell us what YOU feel about the service: its achievements over six decades, your experiences of treatment - and what you would like to see for the future.

Stop the mudslinging - some politicians are trying to help

Thu, 01 May 2008 09:55:33 +0100

Any politician who sees an error in his ways and has the courage to try and make amends deserves to be congratulated.

A solution to Mr Brown's 10p problem...

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:28:59 +0100

Now that the 10p tax on pensions has arrived it is easy for Gordon Brown to extract himself from the home goal he has created for himself.

Promises, promises ... the politicians who don't deliver on our overseas pensions

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:53:25 +0100

Over half a million ex-pat British pensioners have had their pensions frozen - some by more than £55 a week – because they are now living overseas in Commonwealth countries rather than the EU. But, writes Brian Havard, if UK Government Ministers were to implement the promises they have personally made, our pensions would not be frozen.

Government petition for frozen overseas pensions

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:30:11 +0100

The Mature Times has highlighted the unfair freezing of overseas pensions. So I am writing to alert people to the fact that there is now an e-petition on the subject.

How do you live on a pension?

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:24:44 +0100

With no exisiting link between average earnings and the state pension, MT readers ask 'how are we supposed to live?'

Where is the justice?

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:45:07 +0000

Following my heart attack I tried to claim Attendance Allowance and was refused. Yet an Al Quaeda terrorist who has never paid a stamp or taxes and was convicted of plotting to kidnap and behead a British soldier was in receipt of benefits to the tune of more than £20,000 a year.

"Lies and half truths" from Pensions Minister

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:28:00 +0000

I have just read the article by Mike O'Brien of DWP and cannot believe the scam...

What planet is Alistair Darling on?

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:55:26 +0000

I’ve just listened to the Budget speech in dismay and disbelief. What planet is the Chancellor on?

Injustice, inequality... we paid our contributions but our pensions are frozen

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:42:40 +0000

Jim Tilley has drawn attention to the scandalous situation whereby some pensioners overseas receive fully indexed pensions and others like those of us in Australia do not. We all paid in the same way and there is no just reason why our pensions are frozen.