Equality in veterans pensions
Created By Michael Smith Over a month ago
Veterans who left service before April 1975 get no pension
Veterans who left service before April 1975 get no pension
Veterans of the UK Armed Forces serving on regular engagements who left the service prior to April 1975 having completed less than 22 years for Other ranks or 16 years for Commissioned Officers made indirect contributions towards pension but receive no benefit in return.
Those who served for a minimum of 2 years beyond April 1975 are entitled to a preserved pension pro-rata their service on reaching the age of 60,on the same terms as the pre-April 1975 leavers.
This is an outrageous injustice which Governments over the past 30 years have chosen to ignore.
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I thought you got your pension at retirement age. Immediate pension was only payable after 22 years pensionable service.
Correct me if I am wrong. My son served for over 12 years and he is pretty sure he picks up a small pension at some time in the future.
It would cost the Govt too much money to pay any sort of pension to all those involved. We have tried through a trades union and taken this as far as it would go but the answer was always the same.NO!!
I served in the RAF from 1959 to 1970
And on and on it goes! Does anybody think we have a snowball's chance in hell of even a modicum of success or recognition? RAF 1960-1974
I THOUGHT YOU HAD TO DO 21 YEARS TO GET ANY THING ALTHOUGH DONE 4 YEARS IN MALAYA 1949 TO 1952 ON A SHORT TERM I DID GET 75 POUNDS ON LEAVING THE ARMY AT THAT TIME
I'm very disappointed that my 9 years 1963-72 (including boy's time) only contributed to the 'Basic Stamp' for my retirement. My brother-in-law who joined Ganges in 1964 - a few months after me, did the 12 years (9 plus boy's time), and then some eight years after discharge, he secured a...
Well!!! This thread explains an odd thing I and several others were subject to: joined in 1959 and took a Supplementary Branch Commission in 66 - this counted as premature termination of Airman service so had to serve further 16 years to regain pension rights. The lost years of pensionable...
My father served 10 years from 1955 to 1965, I think it is wrong that you serve and pay into a pension, but not able to get a pension. He did a very dangerous job.
Paided out £800.00 ish to Armed Forces pension group along with many others to fight our case and was ripped off by the solicitor fighting our case she was struck off I understand
I think we have no chance of ever getting any sort of pension
Used to be a member of the Armed Forces pension group ,took the Government to the European court but no joy they did not want to know.
I served queen and country for six years,went here there and everywhere, came out with just the train ticket home,proud to have served,but what reward did I get,this country does forget all those that served,a bloody shame.