Soldiers sacked days before pension date
20-06-2012, 06:53
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Soldiers sacked days before pension date
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...sion-date.html
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Soldiers who have been made redundant were sacked days before they qualified for a full pension, families of servicemen have complained
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Utterly Utterly Despicable.. 
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20-06-2012, 07:12
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Re: Soldiers sacked days before pension date
Sounds just like the sort of thing some jumped up bean counter would do.
I fear there's much more of this sort of thing to come however and not just amongst the armed forces.
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20-06-2012, 07:19
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Re: Soldiers sacked days before pension date
Where is the loyalty? This is just wrong
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20-06-2012, 07:23
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Re: Soldiers sacked days before pension date
Someone has been a right ----
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20-06-2012, 22:11
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Re: Soldiers sacked days before pension date
Welcome to call me Dave's world.
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20-06-2012, 22:24
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Re: Soldiers sacked days before pension date
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Brigadier Rob Nitsch, the head of Army manning, said that the sackings had been “determined by future manpower requirements”.
“It is not the case that proximity to the date at which a pension would be paid was a consideration for redundancy selection.”
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Then they shouldn't have a problem paying it then should they .This is a truly horrible thing to do .It would be better to sack 1000 and let them keep their pension than sack 500 and take the pension away
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21-06-2012, 04:17
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21-06-2012, 09:27
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Re: Soldiers sacked days before pension date
They are also "considering" changing the number of years that qualify for retirement on pension... adding 5 years. My miltary pension has also been shifted so I have to wait another 3 years to get it.
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21-06-2012, 09:49
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I am utterly dumbstruck. How can they do something so completely heartless and sleep at night? Just shocking! 
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21-06-2012, 09:55
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Re: Soldiers sacked days before pension date
Just imagine what our military on the front line are feeling!
Used and abused, then thrown away.
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21-06-2012, 10:12
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Seems weird that you can lose your pension entitlement when your employer decides to let you go anyway. They should receive a pro rate entitlement. It would be different if they decide to leave themselves, but it's a travesty if an employer can sack someone to get out of paying a pension.
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21-06-2012, 12:12
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Re: Soldiers sacked days before pension date
It used to be that if you served 22 years, you retired and immediately received a pension. Any less than 22 years and you had to wait until age 65.
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21-06-2012, 12:27
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Re: Soldiers sacked days before pension date
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Originally Posted by Taf
It used to be that if you served 22 years, you retired and immediately received a pension. Any less than 22 years and you had to wait until age 65.
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Yes, and I can see that rule being in existence to prevent people from leaving early, but it's just daft that the rule applies if you're made redundant. It gives the employer an incentive to get rid of people early. That's just wrong.
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21-06-2012, 19:14
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Forces have been crapped on by politicians and bean counters for decades and are sadly all to used to it and actually expect it. Only time the politician or the bean counter wants us is when were the only thing that stands between them and harm other then that we can sod off.
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22-06-2012, 15:09
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Re: Soldiers sacked days before pension date
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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Forces have been crapped on by politicians and bean counters for decades and are sadly all to used to it and actually expect it. Only time the politician or the bean counter wants us is when were the only thing that stands between them and harm other then that we can sod off.
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It is time it stopped though..otherwise the people who join the forces won't be the best representatives of their country.
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