Former Mps Pensions

[lynbrown]

What sort of package do the recently dismissed MPs receive?

[youngmafbog]

Bigger ones than mine.

[lynbrown]

Just read it up on Wikipedia. They wont starve.

[tommy39]

its

[tommy39]

its on the bbc homepage now

[Peter Pedant]

Damn good

they get a grant to tide them over the shock of not being re elected
( Ed Balls - quite honestly I dont know what I am going to do now )
Live off his wife rather than living off us I suppose

and they get a larger pension - sooner

because --- -- wait for it

ex MPs find it hard to get alternative employment

[sandyRoe]

Did the MPs whose careers ended ignobly with a taste of porridge keep their pensions?

[Peter Pedant]

oops not sure

if it is contributory - the current law is that there is/was a contract
and the view is that it is no body's interests to say " there is a new law and what was a contract now isnt " - also against the soon to be repealed Human Rights Act

Althooooo Dr SHipman was deprived of his future pension by a stroke of the ministers pen ( very rarely used section of the original 1948 act ) which was contributory ( O hell yes)
and this led directly to his suicide
because Rosemary the widow by a glitcch could get her half share so long as it wasnt vested. ( weird I know )

I vested my pension at the earliest opportunity

[trt]

Ed Balls got £88,000 I heard.

[Hopkirk]

In order to attract suitable people it is only right they have some compensation.

How many other jobs can be cut short in this way?

[SirOracle]

Hopkirk....Maybe not in this way but not very many people have "job" security in this day and age. At least compared to a few years ago.