Mnopf

[j.sabourn]

Ref. Pension rights the widow of a pension holder on his death is entitled to 50% of his pension Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund[ JS However if she was not married to him when he died then she is not his widow.if you do,apply be sure to send his NHI number .,JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John.
Does that mean there will be a few shotgun weddings going on, with the {Wife} holding the shotgun.
Des

[j.sabourn]

We grew up in a more moral society Des , where men were men and women were school marms. Today it is recognised in law that one can be what sex they want , and even flaunt it to children. i suspect a lot of the present day soul searching of why so many women are being bashed can be laid at the door of the idiots who have the power to change the law into a menagerie of lack of moral fibre and respect among the different views on sexual behaviour. We of a certain age were brought up in a different age thank God, we were at least told by our parents to respect the female gender. And not try to emulate it. The same applies to the female sect all one has to do is count the tattoos they sport to spot how far they are in to wanting to wear pants and if they could grow beards , maybe soon someone will come up with a beard elixir for females to enable them to complete the change over. Cheers JS

[j.sabourn]

Re seamen’s pension rights via the seaman’s Australian union I have seen ABs walking away after 25 years service with the best part of $700,000 A. Never heard of any good remarks about pensions in uk , and out here it was ran by the union , the seamans union branch was the highest of the other sections of the Maritime Union.,JS

[Rodney Mills]

When I was 64 I applied for a UK pension. I had worked and paid in for almost 6 years, 4 years and eleven months of that in the MN. I eventually had a reply that I was eligible for 12 pound eleven shillings a month pension. Sounds like it wasn't worth the effort, but I had it sent to my bank account here. Now 21 years later and it's still being deposited and the accumulated total I have received to date is roughly 2,880 pounds or almost 5,000.00 US dollars and I'm aiming to make it 6.000.00 dollars

"From acorns mighty oaks do grow".

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Rod.
I worked for close to nine years in the UK, two in a tinplate works and the rest at sea, when I applied for a pension they said I hadn't worked in the UK long enough to be eligible? Going by what I have read of the state of the UK economy now I may have just saved them from collapse LoL
Cheers for a Triumphant NEW Year

[j.sabourn]

I was told I was 3 stamps short in the year 2002 , buttttt if Ipayed them about 3000 pounds they would make up the difference to a full pension at the time. The difference was about ten Bob a week by my recollection. I told them no thanks just send what I am entitled to ,which is the same amount today as what it was nearly 25 years ago.
Des they needed your contributions to pay some poor displaced illegal immigrant. Will save him procastrinating to all and sundry and giving the uk a bad name.JS

[Rodney Mills]

Des.

Can't explain how I got mine and you didn't. Can't remember if I took any other steps, c couple of thousand pounds back. Mine still plugging away $105.00 last month. Perhaps it's my fluttering green eyes. Happy New Year to Ya'll. Cheers Rodney

[j.sabourn]

When on foreign flagged ships I paid self employed stamps purchased by my wife at the post office I believe , rather think for a full pension you had to have 35 years of paying into the system. It was taken off your salary automatically by your employer if working UK wise , and also extra called graduated payments if salary over a certain amount, which raised your pension by 6d. In the pound for every pound contributed. The mnopf if memory correct was paid into the fund and was 5% of earnings and shipowner think he was supposed to pay 7.5%. Offshore in Australia there were two rosters A and B. A roster you were considered a permanent employer of a shipowner and you paid think it was 4% of earnings to the union who invested some of it for you, think the shipowner paid 6% to the fund .If on the B roster you paid 2% of earnings to union, but shipowner paid nothing into the fund, but he had to pay the seafarer 27% above the recognised salary to the seafarer, you were considered a casual worker so accumulated nothing into the fund. The Australian maritime unions I found were very well employed to looking after their members honestly and above board. JS