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Originally Posted by joeysteele
Do you know what annoys me as to the welfare debate, the fact that the State Pension is included as social security welfare spending.
It takes up more than half of the welfare figure yet it is not a benefit really, it is a right,vastly rich people get it too as a right.
It is shocking to use the State Pension in statistics to mislead as to the 'real' welfare spending figure.
People paid into the tax/N.I. pot for that State pension, it is time it was separated from the welfare figures.
It really makes me angry that no govt of any party has done so either.
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Very annoying. Especially when the pension is rising and everything else is being cut xD Its just misleading to lump them together as welfare