For the Many Group Magazine. | Page 7

The D.W.P. The Department for Works and Pensions If you were born 50s or 60s you will have expected to retire at a certain age but since the conservative government have taken power, all that has changed. They have decided to rob pensioners of their pension rights. How are they allowed to keep an extra seven years of our entitlement? THEFT - nothing else. Why? Because they have miss-managed our money and we are paying for it by getting seven years less than our original entitlement and they get us to pay for an extra seven years. The Bible says we get three score and ten years so that leaves our tired bodies with three years. (If we are lucky) BUT - DID YOU KNOW? Bobby Devereeux, Senior Civil Servant with the DWP will retire this month aged 61 (lucky boy) How much is HIS pension? - Approx £1.8 million! Is that not more than you are allowed to save? You might well ask, YES! Is the short answer but not for him – No not for him! He is exempt. BUT WHY? You might well ask. Well as he is one of those people who makes up the pension rules that we all have to adhere to, he is of course going to be the first to protect his own interest and of course, that’s exactly what he did. In March 2012 he left the pension scheme because in April 2012 the total dropped from £1.8m and is currently £1m now. So opting out from making contributions, you keep the £1.8m lifetime allowance. This is just another true story about Greed and self preservation. Bobby is reported to have said he is proud of all his achievements which include axing 50,000 staff within the DWP departments and being mainly responsible for introducing PIP and Universal Credit. Changes in disability allowances have been reported to be responsible for over 100,000 deaths of sick and disabled people and has been identified by the UN as illegal. -7-