Pensions

[Captain Kong]

Maybe a letter to our Lord John Prescott asking him if possible to answer in Plain English that we could all understand what it really means,
I was a NSU Member from 1952 to 1976, do I and others of that time scale qualify?
So far it is as clear as mud.
I am sure our John would know the answer. I would write to him but he does not like me so I may not get the answer.
Cheers
Brian.

[Rodney Mills]

Captain,

As I read it, you defiantly qualify for the full eight years of service assuming you were a rating and not an officer. As to me I served from 54-58 1/2, so it gives me 4 full years in, as they changed the rules from previously adults to including boy ratings.

Now who to address a claim?

Cheers, Rodney

[Lou Barron]

Did any of you guys hear of post war credits .
When i have arrived home in 1945 i received some papers including a couple of papers with will be paid for my post war credits well i did forgot about them but after a few years i wrote to the people concerned (no computor in them days)and l received i bit of money i think about 120 pounds NZ

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi All.
I was in the seamen's union from 1949 to 1957, if anyone finds out if the Seamen's union funds were part of this deal I would be pleased to put in a claim, I was refused a British pension as I had not completed 10 years on full stamps payments before I left the country, as I was only 14 when I left school I didn't pay the full amount until I was 16. I wonder who got my part benefits.
Cheers Des


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[happy daze john in oz]

Des the number of years required to get a pension or part one have changed, have you considered applying again?

But what of the union dues we paid maybe thinking they contained a pension component, will this apply to all who sailed then?

[j.sabourn]

#14 Des story has it that Brian Kong got your missing part, however being honest he gives it back to the NHSS in the form of the extra tax he has to fork out. Cheers JS

[neil watson]

hi vic, I posted it on ships nostalgia and on here, and since also posted a scan of the article there too (under pensions) and I post under name of hashcookie.

[neil watson]

Hi, I was registered with the pool in 1963, and remember deductions for the Merchant Navy Pension Fund being taken from my wages in 1978 ''for the new pension fund''. That continued until I came ashore in 89. I receive, since becoming 65, a pension from the fund, and I phoned them, they asked me to send discharge book, and i'm waiting to hear from them. The fund is managed by JLT Employee Benefits, Leatherhead House, Station Road, Leatherhead, KT22 7ET

[E.Martin]

Checked through my old papers after reading about the claim,found 2 Union books all paid up and stamped.
What is the claim address?
My sea time was 1947-1958 so should just about get the 8 years in

[Keith Tindell]

I did not do 8 years , but from 1958-64, did we all pay into this pension scheme???, i have no recollection of paying anything in, i was deck boy-AB, so would i be able to claim?? Regards KT