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**Maggy** · 04-08-2019, 15:01

I just lived my life. However after seeing my mother widowed at 44 struggling to make ends meet on a very miserly widow's pension of £40 a month and in the situation of only being able to take low paying jobs because if she earned more than £10 each week her widows pension would be docked I decided I was never going to be in that situation.

So I got as good an education as I could relying on the fact that I was from a single parent family so I got a full free grant,worked at a variety of low paying jobs during my summer vacations so as to support myself and not be a burden on my mother.Not all baby boomers had it easy.

I'm still living in the first house I and my husband bought in 76. Apart from child benefit I have never taken another penny from the state and I only took that because I was a stay at home parent while my husband was away serving in the Royal Navy and wanted to make sure that my NI was paid so I would be entitled to an pension.

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Maggy The Invisible Woman Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: between Portsmouth and Southampton. Age: 72 Services: VM XL TV,50 MB VM BB,VM landline, Tivo Posts: 40,344	Re: [Update 2] PM Boris forms a government I just lived my life. However after seeing my mother widowed at 44 struggling to make ends meet on a very miserly widow's pension of £40 a month and in the situation of only being able to take low paying jobs because if she earned more than £10 each week her widows pension would be docked I decided I was never going to be in that situation. So I got as good an education as I could relying on the fact that I was from a single parent family so I got a full free grant,worked at a variety of low paying jobs during my summer vacations so as to support myself and not be a burden on my mother.Not all baby boomers had it easy. I'm still living in the first house I and my husband bought in 76. Apart from child benefit I have never taken another penny from the state and I only took that because I was a stay at home parent while my husband was away serving in the Royal Navy and wanted to make sure that my NI was paid so I would be entitled to an pension. __________________ Hell is empty and all the devils are here. Shakespeare..