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    disgrace

    why are they not having to pay this back, i would send in the baliffs to recover this

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle5353864.ece


    100,000 pensions face pay cut after blunderPhilippe Naughton and Jill Sherman
    Nearly 100,000 retired public sector workers face a signficant reduction in their annual pension following a massive pensions blunder dating from 1978, the Government admitted today.

    Liam Byrne, the Cabinet Office minister, told MPs that £126 million had been overpaid to an estimated 95,000 people over the last 30 years including teachers, soldiers and nurses.

    Letters went out yesterday to all those affected alerting them that their pension payments may have to be reviewed from April next year. Although no pensioners will be expected to give back the amount they were overpaid, they will face reduced payments averaging £220 a year, or just under £4 a week.

    Organisations representing the elderly were furious that ministers had not given individuals the full details of how their pensions will be affected and most will now have to wait till the new year or even later to get the information.

    #2
    Originally posted by mrdonuts View Post
    why are they not having to pay this back, i would send in the baliffs to recover this
    Would you really seize money from pensioners who have been overpaid in the past through no fault of their own?

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      #3
      Originally posted by expat View Post
      Would you really seize money from pensioners who have been overpaid in the past through no fault of their own?
      Yup - and charge them interest, and confiscate their houses for being wrinkly coffin-dodgers and for being the generation that started screwing up the planet.

      Bah humbug....
      Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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        #4
        Originally posted by expat View Post
        Would you really seize money from pensioners who have been overpaid in the past through no fault of their own?
        Dont feed the troll.

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          #5
          Originally posted by expat View Post
          Would you really seize money from pensioners who have been overpaid in the past through no fault of their own?
          are you talking about public sector gold plated pensioners - yup

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            #6
            That's £44 a year each. Boomed!

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