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10-06-2013, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Nedusa

A huge number of pensioners live on only the state pension so it must keep pace with the cost of living and inflation. It must be linked to the RPI or the CPI and should not be capped to any artificial figure.

They should have sorted out their pension ages ago well before they retired. They cant expect the state to subsidise them until they die. What if they live to over 100?

Not my views but the counter arguments to keeping the state pension.

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