I've just come across this letter from Smithers, covering DB pensions in general and the USS in particular. https://smithers.co.uk/extending-the-liabilities-time-horizon-is-key-to-pensions-reform/
Great. A chance to nit-pick something from Steve Webb. The Married Woman’s Option finished in 1977, not 1978. SERPS was…
I was told by the Pensions Service, that if I divorced my husband before I retired, I would get a…
Success in applying the rules set out in law is not reliant on loopholes (I prefer educated projections of future…
Tag Archives: leaseholder
Today’s voting day (May 7th);- a day for leaseholders to have their say
By Harry Scoffin While Labour basks in the glow of the Renters’ Rights Act, the housing minister quietly lobs a political Molotov cocktail at another group of desperate tenants: leaseholders. Listen to this article Last week, housing minister Matthew Pennycook, … Continue reading
You own a leasehold flat? Are you a debt slave to freeholders?
Harry Scoffin goes viral on instagram The The unique paranoia of leaseholders- “nobody wants to be a debt slave to a freeholder” Harry is right on both counts. Here is the recent video that spells Harry’s message out very well!
Leaseholders are not getting protection and it’s not good enough.
https://www.freeleaseholders.org.uk/ Earlier this week I pointed to statistics showing that all over the country, the owners of leasehold properties are finding reselling of their leaseholds harder. Indeed many leaseholders are finding they cannot get the money they paid for the … Continue reading
Lloyds; now one of Britain’s top 5 landlords, should come @10.30 Tuesday to hear Harry Scoffin
Below is an invitation to what has over the weekend become even more topical. It’s revealed that Lloyds bank has stealthily become one of the five biggest landlords in Britain. According to a spokesperson talking with the FT, they are … Continue reading
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Harry’s live on pension support of leaseholder abuse.
Harry Scoffin will be speaking at the Pension PlayPen at 10.30 am on Tuesday 11th November. It is of course armistice day and I hope we will break for a minute at 11am to remember that. Please join … Continue reading
“Commonhold for the many not just the new”- sign to support
A blog in support of commonhold and Harry Scoffin A “black out” elsewhere? Well not quite everywhere. This blog will continue to push for the rights of leaseholders to be treated fairly. Freeholders’s “woke hold band” will continue to resist … Continue reading
Leasehold Bill debated today – ground rents still need capping.
RESCUE THE LEASEHOLD AND FREEHOLD REFORM BILL So many of you have written to me sick with worry about the fate of this Bill. Our party promised it in our election-winning 2019 manifesto. We must deliver it. Campaigners will keep … Continue reading
48 hours to save leaseholders our bill
🙏48 HOURS TO SAVE THE BILL – LEASEHOLDERS UNITE🙏 We believe in miracles. And we really need one. If you need to see the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill rammed through onto the statute books before the GE, email your … Continue reading
Extending time horizons can ease short-term funding pressure, but it shifts risk toward younger members. Reform should make those intergenerational…