Pensions for all

[happy daze john in oz]

It was comments by Braid that prompted me to write this He claims he is unable to be paid aged pension from UK.

The 'missing link' our version of UK DHSS. deals quite a bit with pensions as many here, like myself, receive an overseas part pension.

Reading all the information on this matter I am of the opinion that as Braid has paid into the NHS he is entitled to a state pension like all others who have.

The only requirement is an Australian bank account into which it can be paid.

I cannot understand why the pension Braid I entitled to cannot be paid into his local bank.

[Doc Vernon]

May have other rules there John!???
I don't get a part pension from South Africa after working there for so many Years.

I only get a part pension here at the moment, as Irene still works full time. and she too although working full time also gets exactly the same amount of part pension,and this is all legal too! So no complaints from the Mac's LOL

Cheers

[Doc Vernon]

Off the subject a bit John
Some good news on the Horizon mate Irene has only just over Six Months for her long Service with the present Company,this will be her third Long Service with Companies since we came here!
Anyway she has decide that after that she will be cutting her days down to three a week ,which will give her 4 day at Home! Horay!
She still does not want to stop altogether though,
Anyway this happens at the end of June 2016 and I will I think then start looking at another overseas trip!
In pace of her taking just the normal 4 weeks leave she can then if she likes take for Eg" 6 weeks or more depending on how she feels!
Gives me more time to travel,then when I get back she will be going again as well!
Cheers
Happy Days are coming again! LOL

Hope you read this too George,get that Kettle boiling mate! LOL

[j.sabourn]

Similar to Doc. Pension from UK about 72 pounds a week. having worked for over 10 years in Australia are entitled to an Australian one, which is only a partial one due to the UK one. Some of the oldies out here receive no Australian one as do not qualify and have to rely on British one which maybe as low as 50 pounds a week or even lower. Whatever stage they started their British pension at remains the same till death. If things were right they should all go back to the UK and get what is rightly theirs. The whole NHI system would either have to suspend all free gratis handouts to foreigners and pay their own people first or go under. JS

[John Pruden]

members I worked for many building firms and very few even had a pension scheme so many retired builders now have to really on state pensions as jobs finish so did you?? many were told say on a Monday that you were finished up on the Friday so you had to find other employment and today was more important than tomorrow!! so the builders missed out from being in a pension scheme .. jp

[j.sabourn]

The only builders (tradesmen) who did get a pension were those who worked for the Council. My old man worked for them the last few years of his working life and he thought more of that pension than anything, as was getting for nothing, it was only coppers as well, but allowed him a few pints in the local. JS

[John Pruden]

john that is one of the wonders of this country we have thousands of builders on the dole yet a massive housing shortage makes no sense to me at all.. jp

[Jim Brady]

All the Poles are doing their jobs John,not many Pole builders unemployed.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[j.sabourn]

I don't really know the situation in the UK re. mortgages etc. and the availability of money etc. to youngsters. Young couples out here usually buy a piece of land then go to a builder to build them a house on it to their choosing. The only drawback there may be to this is the availability of money, but as interest rates are about 3 to 4 per cent don't see too many problems there. If I can land in a country at 53 years of age practically penniless own two houses and build a third in 10 years there must be something wrong with todays youth. Maybe they want too much for nothing. Every country has its poor apparently, but there is poor and poor, some go that way through choice. The genuine poor there are various actions they can take for themselves. They call it Work. The world owes nobody a living as countries like the uk will find out before too long, when work finally dries up as is taken by outsiders. Even in our much younger days when in the likes of Australia and NZ it was obvious to most of us where the future could lie as regards a good life, I just never had the nerve to jump ship. Cheers John S

[cappy]

interest rates are very low on mortgages here ......ayoung couple with the fortitude to save hard for a year or two can get on the ladder......it is as johnf did give you the greatest asset you can own .......it is like pensions .....i have stated before i got a pension co to come to my business to talk to my people .....one out of 20 odd took it ......it was the best thing he ever did ......the rest no doubt are trying to live on the state pension which must really be a hard thing to cope with.....i know with the NHS and my state pension alone i am getting many more thousands than i paid in ...so icannnot complain .....or blame anyone else......i cannot believe that braid is not entitled to some pension income perhaps he should make further enquiries as i know a female who only worked a half dozen years and still draws a 70 plus pounds per week.....regards cappy