Ron Avery Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 JR is correct, it has recently changed to 30 years. We have been warned by DWP not to make additional NI payments to top up pensions for some time now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJSLIV Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 The UK government has reduced the number of qualifying contribution years needed to obtain a full basic state pension to 30 years for both men and women who will reach their state pension age on or after 6 April 2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 That's interesting. We got letters last July (2006) telling us this may happen and that they (DWP Newcastle) would keep us informed as to whether we needed to carry on making our NI contributions but we've never heard anything back. Do you have a source for this information? I also don't understand why they would do this when they say there already isn't enough money in the coffers to pay pensions for the aging population? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Even so, many of us who are being "bashed" by the new rules, have worked for 40 years but they are still being classed as "preretraite" and "inactif" by M. Sarkozy, because they are British. My o/h worked for the same company from the age of 17 to 57 but is still not going to be allowed to pay into the state healthcare sytstem.Copper, somebody quoted chapter and verse on this recently, I will try to find it. A bit of simultaneous posting went on there, Hagar! See below. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Copper - you can find details of the UK state pension reforms here - http://www.dwp.gov.uk/pensionsreform/rgds Hagar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Just a thought has crossed my mind. In the UK women retire at 60 and men at 65. Which means in France a Brit man who is classed as a préretraité would not have health cover from 60 to 65 whereas a woman would get it. Now, doesn't this start to fall under French sexual discrimination laws? Anybody care to have a ferret? Stop you being bored Coops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Is French discrimination law any different to that in UK where the retirement age differential is slowly being harmonised ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Thanks for the link Hagar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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