[BITList] Letter in Financial Times

[John Feltham]

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> A letter in the Financial Times, written by John Markham, argued our cause very well. It was much the same as a letter written to all MPs by the ICBP.
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> Dian Elvin, now resident in UK but still fighting our cause writes:
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> I sent a reply to the FT. The letter appears in the newspaper today (Saturday 9 Nov) and is given the top space in the letter section.
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> I wrote:
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> It's a very good letter. This country and all its political parties should be ashamed of themselves. There is no intelligent or logical reason why a pensioner, who has paid insurance dues regularly in advance, should be denied the pension plus annual cost of living additions on retirement. The employer also paid in advance and both payments were compulsory. Why on earth do cost of living additions depend upon the country where our pensioners decide to retire? There is in fact no need for a reciprocal agreement. This is just a convenient excuse, used to duck out of an agreed pension payment to 50% of our own pensioners retiring abroad, including, as John Markham points out, our own surviving war veterans. The payment into the National Insurance Fund is, just that: insurance for a small, annually increased, income for old age. No other insurance company would be allowed to get away with this behaviour. May the up-coming Pension Debate in the Lords finally put an end to the shameful rule which has blighted the lives of a fraction of our old people for decades, and will continue if it is not stopped.
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> Dian Elvin
> Witney, Oxfordshire
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