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This Covid Pandemic Has Had Some Winners And Some Losers
$3.7tn – Decrease in earnings of world’s workers during 2020 due to coronavirus crisis, according to research by the International Labour Organisation
$3.9tn – Increase in wealth of world’s billionaires during first ten months of coronavirus crisis, according to research by Oxfam
(from the same page in Private Eye as my last post)
$3.9tn – Increase in wealth of world’s billionaires during first ten months of coronavirus crisis, according to research by Oxfam
(from the same page in Private Eye as my last post)
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.//You can be a billionaire here and you would still get the SP.//
Yes. But unless you had made additional voluntary contributions you would receive the same amount as somebody who had contributed the absolute minimum and less than somebody who had contributed nothing. Find me another "Pension" scheme where that would apply.
Yes. But unless you had made additional voluntary contributions you would receive the same amount as somebody who had contributed the absolute minimum and less than somebody who had contributed nothing. Find me another "Pension" scheme where that would apply.
I thought I read that UC will replace pensions & pension credit and even out the amounts received. Something to do with women who took (or had to take) career breaks to raise their children (that would be practically all women back in the day) losing out in the pension stakes.
I think you needed X amount of NI contributions to qualify for pension credit.
Could be wrong, I'm trying to remember an article I read years ago.
What I do know for sure, is not all poor people 'deserve' to be poor.
And not all rich people deserve to be rich.
I think you needed X amount of NI contributions to qualify for pension credit.
Could be wrong, I'm trying to remember an article I read years ago.
What I do know for sure, is not all poor people 'deserve' to be poor.
And not all rich people deserve to be rich.
// The main thing is they [as in rich people, I think] are keeping money circulating around the world. //
Again, though -- are they? Rich people tend to hoard wealth, and while a few go on to generous acts of philanthropy, many still end up with fortunes that could buy out small countries.
All I'm saying, really, is that we have a top-heavy economy, and the pandemic has served to exacerbate that. Even with life standards generally improving, it's still a problem.
Again, though -- are they? Rich people tend to hoard wealth, and while a few go on to generous acts of philanthropy, many still end up with fortunes that could buy out small countries.
All I'm saying, really, is that we have a top-heavy economy, and the pandemic has served to exacerbate that. Even with life standards generally improving, it's still a problem.
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