petee
no gods, no malarkey
yyyyup
What do you think about retirement and when will you do it?
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yyyyup
Play your cards right and I'll put in a good word.
RubyBlue
faded and jaded
Do you happen to know if it is true that anytime spent out of work, if you were in the UK and signing on then that is included in the amount of years (35?) NI you need to have accrued?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Yeh looking at my record the full years I was on the dole are covered, I'm missing time when I went into work that was low paid
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
my understanding is that if you are on benefits, including the dole, then you get NI contributions credited. I don't think I am missing any years when I spent part of the year on the dole, but don't think i managed a full financial year of it, so would have had some work NI contributions as well
RubyBlue
faded and jaded
Thank you Pickman's model and Puddy_Tat I should be absolutely fine then, I have paid NI since I was 18 either working or signing on but missed a couple years when overseas so I’m sure I have enough years! Not that I intend to go and retire just yet 
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
You need to have earned over the Lower Earnings Limit within the tax year
National Insurance contributions will tell you the amount the LEL was for each year back to 1999-2000. It’s an open document spreadsheet format that I couldn’t open on my phone hopefully it works on desktop. If you need the figures for a year prior to that it’s here
webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk
National Insurance contributions will tell you the amount the LEL was for each year back to 1999-2000. It’s an open document spreadsheet format that I couldn’t open on my phone hopefully it works on desktop. If you need the figures for a year prior to that it’s here
UK Government Web Archive
This Page is [ARCHIVED CONTENT] and shows what the site page http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/tax_structure/menu.htm looked like on 31 Dec 1900 at 23:59:59
webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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RubyBlue
faded and jaded
You’ve done fabulously well for someone who sucked cock for a fiverAbsolutely. I earn a good salary now- 50k. And my brother and his wife always go on about being poor and not going out for meals etc. I had to point out that their joint income was actually MORE than mine and they were just being tight fuckers
Also your Dad sounds like a bit of a cunt if you don’t mind me saying so.
Seriously, I admire the knowledge your kids have regarding shit like this. And also you for helping them want to have the knowledge.
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
ditto, what the fuck?
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
If I have not retired before retirement age I will be fucking pissed off, not because I deserve it, because its fucking bullshit the age they give now. My dad worked his whole life, was forced into medical retirement before that point, got fucked over on medical care as he was retired and then died having enjoyed none of his retirement as oxygen tanks are not very portable and aneurysms are bastards. He said it himself, retirement is great, if you can enjoy it and I can't I cried nearly as much at that as at his funeral this year.
strung out
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Think it was her tagline for a bit years back after DotCommunist took the piss out of her for something.
editor
hiraethified
I'll wait for an explanation before taking action But it better be good.You’ve done fabulously well for someone who sucked cock for a fiver
Seriously, I admire the knowledge your kids have regarding shit like this. And also you for helping them want to have the knowledge.
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It's a joke between them referencing an old tag line.
RubyBlue
faded and jaded
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That dint hurt, it did make me fucking piss myself laughing
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
Wow
RubyBlue
faded and jaded
Wow indeed ~ I’m now otta here.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
it's a retirement thread....some of the old folks here are having memory issues..
shakespearegirl
just worked out taglines
They are now proposing to increase the age of retirement to 68 and I’ll be just included in this (only link is the daily fail so won’t post) arses!
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It's already 68 for those of us born in the 80s. The full proposals to increase it earlier for people born between 1970 and 1978 are here: Proposed new timetable for State Pension age increases
BoatieBird
Well-Known Member
I was born in 1971 so hopefully that means I will get my pension when I'm 67 years and 1 month.
Under the current proposals... I fully expect the goalposts to move in the interim.
I don't think I'd be bored in retirement, there's loads of stuff I'd like to do - all those summer mornings when I have to drag myself away from the garden to start work, I could just carry on gardening! The morning dog walk would always be in the daylight and there'd be chance to do lots more day time walks.
Under the current proposals... I fully expect the goalposts to move in the interim.
I don't think I'd be bored in retirement, there's loads of stuff I'd like to do - all those summer mornings when I have to drag myself away from the garden to start work, I could just carry on gardening! The morning dog walk would always be in the daylight and there'd be chance to do lots more day time walks.
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