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Discounts for OAPs


Butcher's Coat said:
I get mine at 66 years and 2 months - in late July.
I have already had to wait over a year to get my State Pension - so that's £12k that I should have had.
BUT - I knew that years ago - and have budgeted correctly to allow for this.
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Thats not the point, your selfishness is screwing over your grandkids. Weird that you seem smug about it.
 
Redandwhitedust said:
Thats a nice bonus. But the biggest reason is companies know that OAPs have the time (and often money) to spend when most customers are at work and business is typically slower.

But theyre harder to get out of the house to spend the money.

Offer cheap meals (usually a smaller portion), cheaper activity costs, and you get revenue at a time when youd otherwise be empty.

Theres also a factor that old people often dictate where the rest of the family goes. Get the old dears in, and youll probably get their family too paying full price.
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You'll be old one day marra ;)
 
42 said:
Thats not the point, your selfishness is screwing over your grandkids. Weird that you seem smug about it.
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I am not selfish at all.
I want what is quite rightly mine, and reap what I have sown into the system - just as you will when you get older.
Redandwhitedust said:
Im getting there faster than I'd like!
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Tell us about it.
Enjoy it marra, we're here only the once. It's not a dress rehearsal.
 
Butcher's Coat said:
I am not selfish at all.
I want what is quite rightly mine, and reap what I have sown into the system - just as you will when you get older.

Tell us about it.
Enjoy it marra, we're here only the once. It's not a dress rehearsal.
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Thats the problem, what you put in was based on incorrect assumptions. What you want is more & you want your kids & grandkids to pay for it. Ie selfish
 
contrarian said:
You might as well apply that ‘philosophy’ to those institutions who show preference to ex and current servicemen and women, to health workers, fire service workers etc
Maybe if govt stopped giving handouts to billionaires ( govt contracts, tax concessions etc ) and started taxing these people at same basic rate, as we do ‘ battlers’ then maybe we can stop concessions to boomer pensioners, do away with need for soup kitchens and food banks
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Don’t get me started on blue light type discounts
Consultants on £100k getting discounts
All wrong
 
42 said:
Thats the problem, what you put in was based on incorrect assumptions. What you want is more & you want your kids & grandkids to pay for it. Ie selfish
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I want what is fair to the people who have already paid into the system.
Just like I paid into the system 50 years ago when I started work as an apprentice welder in 1976.
I dare say my Great Grandparents, Grandparents etc all benefitted from my contributions to the greater good.
 
The rich no longer even try to hide how much they are absolutely shafting the rest of us, but lets ignore that and get riled up because pensioners get a small discount.
 
Butcher's Coat said:
Love the triple lock, it is a great thing. It ensures that the UK state pension doesn't lose value to inflation.

I don't understand why some people want it done away with.

Why would you want people to have less money?
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Because I don’t think it’s sustainable. I’m resigned to the fact it won’t exist for my generation, as it happens.

I’m happy for it to rise in line with an appropriate index, it’s just the triple lock is a daft mechanism. I don’t want people to have less money.
 
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I've posted before there are some folks round where I live who took early retirement (early 50s) and are now well into their 80s, some having gone to uni until their early 20s. Retired with a lumper, some with index linked final salary pensions, and in some cases non contributory when they actually were working. I also know an old boy who used to be in the police and they paid his mortgage when he was serving. :lol:

They're absolutely minted comparatively to people in the same jobs now.
I thought things were meant to get better for each generation?

Absolutely incredible and fair play to them.
 
42 said:
I know its part of the problem, but increasing life expectancy has been known for decades, but can was kicked down the road. The current young generation is not only paying for that mistake but also paying extra on top for the triple lock. The affluent boomer generation just need some self awareness of the issue instead of taking a massive hissy fit cos they lost their £200 holiday spends
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It's the OP having a hissy fit m8.
 
chunkyshanhawk53 said:
I’m fully aware this will be as popular as a guinness fart in a lift, but nevermind. Not trying to be contrary, just intrigued

Why is OAP a discount still a thing. OAP wealth is greater than all other age groups, why do they get a discount for the match, transport, the cinema, whatever?

Don’t give me Mavis who is living on the state pension, the counter is Steve who is living on unemployment benefits.
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Maybe some of us paid our dues over the years and respected our oap for what they have done for the future
Now the oap of today who fought for all the Bonny marbles that the young are now getting should get some pay back
Simples
 
Vincemac said:
Maybe some of us paid our dues over the years and respected our oap for what they have done for the future
Now the oap of today who fought for all the Bonny marbles that the young are now getting should get some pay back
Simples
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Which are?
Bearing in mind who & what that generation votes for in elections which isn't what the yonger generations want.
 
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