Tag Archives: Pre 97
If you’re a pre-97 pensioner – there’s a shirt for you to wear
Here it is – what colour suits you best? No offence to you offenders; you have no shame so won’t worry if your pensioners wear your crime close to their hearts!
The Times thunders for pension increases – urging TPR to praise some and call out others!
I’m grateful to Jane Foley for highlighting the need for Government to get on with sorting the “pre-97 pensioners” who still don’t get increases. Patrick Hosking does a good job of highlighting the need to put pressure on rogue schemes … Continue reading
How you can support pensioners being cheated out of their pension increases
A lot of those losing out on their pension is coming down as elderly pensioners die with no restitution, let’s not let it happen – find your MP’s address and send by email or Royal Mail, this letter. Linked-in does … Continue reading
Couldn’t pre-97 pension indexation be met by a windfall-tax on insurers?
Pension Oldie’s testimony Pension Oldie is a regular commentator on this blog and this comment was made after my blog yesterday which posed the question – what is the Government going to do with the PPF’s £16bn surplus. My speculation … Continue reading
The pre-97 pensioners who lost their pension – had NO voice at Conference.
Terry Monk rightly points to my blog and asks do I give the prominence to the plight of his generation of pensioners who had the bad luck to find their pensions collapse before the PPF was invented to provide such … Continue reading
From gold to rust – time to sort pensioner pay?
The story is a simple one. Hundreds of thousands of people who have defined benefit pension rights built up before 1997 have not and are not getting any increases on their DB pensions. Most pensioners in private sector DB plans … Continue reading
Time for pension schemes to exit the bomb-shelter
I’ve been pointed to a very good article on pension increases by Irwin Mitchell’s Penny Cogher and Harriet Fletcher on discretionary increases. The article was written this January and I suspect that in the meantime, the presumption of … Continue reading