nothing wrong with that imo - respect the elderly they once respected you!!
I agree with this article, regarding the UK being one of the lowest paid pensioners in Europe.
I will add that although 10% sounds a high figure, it’s a percentage of a very low number. And will only add approximately £79 a month to the pension. Somebody earning £40,000 a year receiving a 4% increase would add approximately £133 to their wages a month.
I’m not at pensionable age yet and I only benefitted from Child Tax Credits for three years where since then I’ve had to pay for other people’s Child Tax Credits and didn’t get any help with free child care like they do now. Also we didn’t get the help with saving for a deposit like the youngsters do now.
I don’t begrudge them any of that and don’t think they should begrudge the pensioners getting a 10% pension rise.
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Funny how you don’t notice the missing i in Generaton.
It’s like those puzzles where you ndrstnd th mnng vn thgh th vwls r mssng 
Whoops!
Starting and typing out threads is hard work these days. By the time you’ve added a section, tags, tried to type out the opening post in a rectangle that hides your words and keeps jumping about… you can be forgiven for posting it quickly before you want to chuck your iPad out of the window!! 
Please could a kind TL3 please correct my spelling mistake.
Artangel please be more careful when spelling generation
Artangel please be more careful when spelling generation
Artangel please be more careful when spelling generation
Artangel please be more careful when spelling generation
Artangel please be more careful when spelling generation
Artangel please be more careful when spelling generation
Artangel please be more careful when spelling generation
Artangel please be more careful when spelling generation
Artangel please be more careful when spelling generation
Artangel please be more careful when spelling generation
Your wish is my command oh Arty. 
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Tank Yoo, Persevere!!
Not sure on that, we’ve all had to pay in the qualifying years to get the full state pension,
That is what they would like again, by raising the state pension age.
I don’t believe all that malarky about how tough it is to be young these
days at all !
Most don’t go to work untill they are at least 22yrs old?
They have never ever done the washing up or cut the grass ?
They take a gap year when they finish educating themselves ?
And go on frequent foreign holidays with or without mummy and daddy ?
I won’t mention music festivals?
Then they complain they can’t save a house deposit ???
Donkeyman! 
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You have been reading the DM again Donk .
Why shouldn’t they go on foreign holidays with their parents it probaby cheaper than staying in the U.K. with the rip of prices demanded by ‘ staycations ‘
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I don’t agree with Katie Hopkins on much but she’s spot on with this one on young people and house deposits
Warning, she’s a bit sweary, don’t open it if that offends
Just as we did from our contributions for the outgoing generation, but I don’t remember any moaning from my age group.
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Maree your Tik toc link doesn’t seem to work
However I have seen it on Facebook and I agree with every word she says .
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I don’t blame them.I don’t like pensioners either,miserable old gits.
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I’m not a pensioner yet, so agree with what you say, but by the time I get there it will be a much higher calibre 
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Don’t you pay for your pension during your working life (wasn’t it called graduated pension contribution?) and doesn’t it vary according to how long you contributed? I can’t see how any government can stop you getting it if you have paid for it.
The pension here is universal, everybody who qualifies gets the same and no one contributes toward it however it is means tested which I think is fair, I don’t get a full pension.
Its altered over the years, once the qualifying period of 35 years now I think it is, all you get is the max, circa £185, up until 2016 when the rules change anything after the 35 yrs went into additional S2P, (state second pension) thus topping up the state pension,
My bold.
The Graduated Retirement Benefit scheme was the first State scheme to provide earnings related pensions on top of the Basic State Pension. It ran from 1961 to 1975 and was replaced by the SERPS in April 1978. This is according to ABRDN dot com. If you’re paying into a company pension, you are, more than likely, not to be contributing to SERPS.
It’s the same with a civil service/crown pension. My statements includes the phrase → “SERPS - contracted out”