Helen Good Morning Britain Martin Lewis One whose pensioners are the best off in history, and better off than non-pensioners.

@iamnotapixel Helen Good Morning Britain Martin Lewis The UK state pension isn't one of the lowest in the developed world. Those making that claim generally ignore SERPS, and state pensions outsourced to the private sector in the UK. As Brendan says, the state pension's risen as a % of earnings for years.

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Stephen fighting the good fight with stats. Such a good point that state pension was reduced in the 80s which saving the cost being passed on to the current pensioners.

Jane Austen up there with the greats when it comes to “Most mentions of annuities in literature” award

The Labour Party Keir Starmer Rachel Reeves have chosen to strictly means-test Winter Fuel Allowance. Anyone who thinks they won't also strictly means-test any #WASPI compensation paid for "maladministration" is plain deluded. See my recent The Telegraph piece. telegraph.co.uk/money/pensions…

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This is absolute nonsense by the way - but doesn’t seem to stop this account getting thousands of retweets every day sadly.

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Case study hunt! Are you a family with a high income and affected by tax cliff edges? Eg. losing child benefit/childcare support, or would lose it but one partner cares for kids at home? Willing to be featured in The Sunday Times? Single parent or two earners. Thx #journorequest

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DWP have just (4pm on a Friday afternoon!) published figures showing that weekly claims for Pension Credit have roughly doubled since the Winter Fuel Payment policy was announced. However, this level of activity would need to last for four *years* to reach all those missing out!

Wish the ESG teams at pension providers focused on sorting out all this post... Very happy to receive all these copy docs electronically.

Happy Friday everyone! Hope if you were "back to school" this week, it was an easy one. Autumnal feel in London today but apparently it should be dry tomorrow and there's another burst of sunshine on the way. Which we all deserve. Have a brilliant weekend!

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