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I am nearly 62 years old I have been married to my wonderful hubby for 42 years mum of 3 grown up daughters and Nan to a fantastic grandson and gorgeous granddaughter . I qualified as a nurse as a mature student and had the best job in the world until I developed health problems and my world came down around my ears ! I now get my kicks from my grandkids, my dog Buster and grandoggies Nora, Ted and Den and Daisy my cat -
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1st Apr 2016auntieboobs54 commented on:
Calling all 1950's women affected by the new pension changesI am a woman was born in May 1954 I would like to let you know of my interest in the WASPI campaign. I have been following this for a few years now, bullying friends and family to sign petitions and sharing latest information on facebook etc. I have been continually in work since I was 15 years old, first with a Saturday and holiday jobs, then in various employments until in my 30s. I achieved my lifetimes' ambition and studied to be a nurse. I am married and have had 4 children and continued to juggle their upbringing with working (mainly shift-work). We helped our daughters through university and they now have amazing careers which we are proud of . In 2009 I unfortunately had, reluctantly, to take early retirement due to a long-term health condition and arthritic back, it was a hard decision to make as I had a post as a senior staff nurse at a local hospice, which I felt was the best job in the world.. When I took the decision to retire I was 55. My husband and I expected to get my pension when I was 60 as I had received nothing to inform me otherwise! I had paid full contributions all my working life so there appeared nothing to stop me. How wrong were we? First I heard I would get it at 62, that was through researching it and then not receiving nothing to tell me otherwise, I sent for a pension forecast which came back to tell me I would be over 66 years of age, although I may get a few pence more weekly because I had paid more than 30 years contributions. We are struggling badly personally and financially. I am depressed at what our life has become in the past few years, we have had to sell our house and take rented property and currently have debts which we are finding difficult to pay. My husband needs a knee operation but will have to wait until he retires next year for this. We can't afford for him to take time off work as he only gets 6 weeks sick pay and the recovery period is 12 weeks. We never expected to be in this position, both of us having worked hard all our life. We used our savings to subsidize wages because unfortunately my husbands was made redundant and had to had to take a drop in salary. Our current state is depressing, I'm fed up of this life as we did everything in our power to provide for our retirement and don't know what else we could have done in our position. I hope with all my heart that this campaign works and we can all receive a satisfactory outcome. We paid throughout our life into the national insurance scheme and just want what is owed to us. -
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