i am now officially a benefits scrounger

[big-all]

06/05/2019
65 years 3 months and 8 days old
finally got my bus pass and state pension yesterday
it gets further away as the years move on
find out your retirement age
https://www.gov.uk/state-pension-age/y

[Dave54]

Well done BA!
18 months away for me yet, although my works pension kicks in in about months.

[dewaltdisney]

Congratulations BA, you made it. Unfortunately time seems to speed up now. Enjoy it you paid for it.

DWD

[Dave54]

Congratulations BA, you made it. Unfortunately time seems to speed up now. Enjoy it you paid for it.

DWD

I actually remember somebody saying to me when I was about 18, "Time goes slowly until you're 21, and then it flies past."
That seems like the other day!

[big-all]

to be fair i have been living off my railway pension that was compulsory at 60 from when i was 59
topped up from savings each week off between 25-£50 so nice to have around £130 can save or spend frivolously as i require rather savings shrinking

[Rorschach]

The way they keep pushing the age up I'll never see my pension.

[Job and Knock]

Beat you to it........

[big-all]

i know and you at 65
if i was born 5 weeks earlier i would get my pension at 65 not 3 months and eight days later

[Bob225]

I will be worm food before I get a pension some time in 2048

[big-all]

I will be worm food before I get a pension some time in 2048

to be fair we left school at 15 and 16 so our working lives are 50 years
very few who retire at 67 will have done 50 years work as most are in education till at least 18
so whilst you wont retire till perhaps 67 or 68 your years off work will be the same or similar

[Bob225]

Not at all I had a full time job at 16 (milk and paper rounds 7 days a week from 13 or so before school ) I worked part time even at college - if I wanted something I had to work for it

Kids today have it easy tbh if they go on to uni there not out of the education systems till there mid 20's

[getthewheelsinline]

Roll on 2050 for me....

[big-all]

Roll on 2050 for me....

i laughed out loud not because off your date but "rolled on" and falkirk wheel as a rotating lift

[dewaltdisney]

Have you had your first payment yet BA? They messed mine up and I got 8 weeks in one hit as an initial payment. That was a nice amount to have I recall.

DWD

[Cannyfixit]

Nice one BA,I’ve still got 7 years to go lol, I can get free prescriptions in a couple of weeks lol