Stop Requiring NI Contributions and Pay The Full State Pension to All.

Background

We call on government to stop requiring NI contributions in order to pay state pensions. We feel this is a degrading humiliating practice. We suggest the Full State Pension is paid to all of pension age. We believe that for too long, our elderly have been portrayed by media as 'burdens on state'.

Additional details

We think all of the elderly should be entitled to a decent pension, comfortable lifestyle, as most will have already paid into the system for longer than anyone else. We believe any Government should have a responsibility toward our nation's elderly people. In the Victorian era, retirement was often only an option for the wealthy. Are we regressing back to those Dickensian times? We believe any need for previous NI contributions seems deliberately demeaning and intrusive.

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