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Originally Posted by Paul
Free bus travel? Well let's face it, with petrol prices sneaking up and down pensioners can only just afford to run their cars  |
That'll be the car they bought and maintain with their hard earned savings which they paid tax on for 50 years or perhaps from a private pension lump sump or income. The kind of thing that prevents them from getting the minimum income top-up that is given free to those pensioners who didn't have the foresight to pay into a private scheme in order to top themselves up a little at retirement.
Edit: I'm actually wondering whether I should frikkin bother paying into my small private pension scheme because, projecting today's figures, I'd be better off spending it on more beer today and I can simply get the minimum income guarantee topup when I retire and be no worse off.