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Tim, why are you cross-posting this crap to irrelevant newsgroups?
Re: IDS mugging pensioners.
Feb 07, 2014
8 Replies
Quite. We have our own far right loonies. Don't need anymore.
No, it's not. It's being raised on a sliding scale to 65 (66 now?) for both sexes.
Not true. I got mine when I was 60 years and 9 months.
A while ago, they aligned male and female dates with respect to bus passes and similar benefits. But they also started sliding the female dates towards 65 (66) with the male ones keeping in sync. In the 10/01/52 case you have to be nearly 62, but it's the same for men and women.
Clueless moron detected.
Spastic convention detected
This tool gives you the definitive ages for bus pass as well as pension, note only for England; Scotland and Wales are different.
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Work your way through the example and it highlights the difference between pension and bus pass at the end.
Also go back and read my earlier post (if you can) where I said I got my bus pass at 60 years and 9 months.
It isn't a common date.
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