[BITList] Jenny Macklin on our side

[John Feltham]

> 
> Here is a suggestion made by a frozen pensioner
> 
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> Would it be useful to have someone prepare a document that lists and 
> explains all of the subsidies and "freebies" that the UK government has 
> introduced for the benefit of seniors in the years since we all paid into 
> the pension plan? The point being that the UK has introduced new benefits 
> for UK residents that were not even contemplated when we made our 
> contributions, and are using the expense of maintaining those "new" programs 
> as their excuse for not upgrading our pensions. For example, the free bus 
> pass scheme, which admittedly is currently being reconsidered, costs the UK 
> approximately one billion pounds a year!
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> 
> I think the idea possibly has merit. Some of the freebies probably don't 
> cost much, and some cost quite a lot. But for our purposes we need not make 
> this distinction.
> 
> Could you please join me by suggesting benefits that we frozen pensioners 
> don't get. Indexation, of course, but that is not the point of this list. We 
> want to include anything that residents get and expats don't, to show how 
> much we DON'T cost the British taxpayer.
> 
> Free bus passes
> Free TV licence
> Christmas bonus
> Age addition
> Pension credit
> NHS
> 
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