General Chat

Apparently, grammar & spelling are regaining their rightful place in some schools.

To answer the title of the thread yes Allan they do, one of my friends still proofreads for a living believe it or not :-) Maybe she should contact the UK Pension Fund.

The many changes to pensions ( for both men and women ) were widely discussed in the media , both TV, magzines and newspapers. They were also the subject of much debate in parliament.

It has never been (and never will be) UKGovt practice to send out individual notices to firms or individuals affected in any way by changes to the law. People are supposed to keep up. It has always been possible to request a pension statement and forecast from the DWP but the claimant has to take the initiative.

How on earth one could have avoided the never ending debate at the time the pensions changes were made I have no idea. Looking for the news on an old cellphone maybe.

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Smart phones didn't really exist in the 1990's, so we should have got a letter!

I have dopey phone. I dropped it once too often the other day, and ended up with a blank screen.
I charged it - still a blank screen, so I pressed the buttons with the palm of my hand - and it woke up! :-D
My phone just calls and texts.
My manager sends emails, unfortunately, quite often to my 'home' address by accident, assuming I have a smart phone. I see them when I get home, and discuss this apparently 'urgent' topic the next day :-D

I also wear a watch, and can tell the time at the flick of my wrist - with both hands free!

Maggie, as discussed many times on these threads, many organisations, including those of the State and Federal (in Australia) Governments now 'advise you that you can access Departmental Information by simply downloading an 'App' to your smartphone.

Similarly, payments may be made in the same manner!

I don't have a smartphone, in fact mine's pretty thick ;-)

Also, I hate the feeling of being pressured to buy such a thing simply because the word 'communication' has lost its original, wider, meaning and the current definition focusses on electronic communication :-| :-|

I think they should have to scour the obituary columns to see if we're dead!
Apparently, 1950's women were 'told' about the rise in pension age in a newspaper, a radio programme and a TV show.
So if you didn't watch or listen to the right media it was your fault.
The Times also had a small article on the front page, which said the pension age would rise IN 2020 - not BY 2020.

Strikes me, if 'we' have to make the effort to personally inform them, they should have personally informed us at the earliest, not (as in my case) 17 years later, when my pension age rose from 65 (which they didn't personally advise me about) to 66!

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Kath. x

Do any Organisations still practise this age-old custom?

I recently received my P60 Pension Pay Advice form from my UK Pension Fund.

On the back of the form there is printed some 'Useful Information'

Regarding a recent audit carried out to see if members were still entitled to receive their pension was this little gem...…"This exercise also identified many cases where members had moved or passed away but failed to inform us....."

It's the first time in ages that I've had a good belly laugh at an official document

Dear Pension Fund, I'm so sorry for not informing you that I had passed away; I was enjoying being dead so much that I simply forgot!



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