----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Shepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 12:20 PM Subject: RE: [canals-list] Re: State Pension Rules Changed
> > >>You chaps shouldn't moan too much, try being a woman! >>When I worked full-time, in a real job I expected to get my pension at 60. > I >>will have to be 64 and 11/12s now. I started my first job a little while >>after women had the choice of paying a reduced stamp so that cost more >>than >>it might have. Then when I was a not-paid-working-mum and part-time > employed >>I could not buy my own pension. Now, when I'm too old for it to be cost >>effective, I can. >>Stitched up? >>Megapixie > > > > But if you paid a full stamp (shows my age) before you had children you'll > get credit for all the years you received family allowance. > > Colin To give them their correct titles, that's Child Benefit and Home Responsibilities Protection. Brenda should think herself lucky she didn't get the chance to pay the married women's reduced rate - that has left a lot of divorced women in poverty, as they presumably expected to get a pension on their husband's contributions and now have no pension of their own. Hang on tight to Graham, Brenda! - although you should have some sort of pension of your own :-) Dorothy > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
