Pension Amounts
Watch this postHi, Did you know as a pension in receipt of State Pension based on your NI contributions you are being short changed!
I was recently chatting with friends about rising living costs, having each received our new payment letter from DWP for April 2020. On calculating our amounts based on the Governments Adult basic wage ( and what they consider an individual needs to live on), which rises in April to an hourly rate of £9.50 based on 40hrs. We had a shock when we found our pension amounts ranged from £4.15 - £4.35 per hour. WHAT we both exclaimed!!!
I am wondering why this has never been addressed by ANYONE as it obviously means that my friends and I are both below the government poverty line - I further calculated that even with my Local Authority Housing Benefit and a small private pension, I will not earn the £380 per week I should ( according to the Government) be living on Interested in your thoughts on this
Judie
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