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Re: The state benefits system mega-thread. Many merged.
Of course it does. But the criteria for receiving it are totally different - so different that when politicians and journalists talk about the 'benefits bill' they customarily separate the pensions component out. IIRC a senior Tory came unstuck a few months ago by raiing against the size of the benefits bill without first discounting the portion paid as pensions.
TBH if we can manage a separate discussion of pensions that doesn't simply re-state all the same overlapping arguments that resulted in this mega-thread merge, just go ahead ... especially if you can find a recent news item to hook it on.
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