howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#2
The report says that the 'average pension pot is £1.7m'....
The simple fact is that there is a 'Lifetime Allowance' for us mere mortals currently of £1.8m applying, so its not bad if their average is £1.7m. Not only that but most of us have no hope of even approaching a pension of that magnitude and when you consider that we taxpayers have contributed most of that doctor's pension fund...
Incidentally there is a tax penalty on pension funds over £1.8m of 55% unless you have a protection in place from when the Lifetime Allowance was introduced. This Lifetime Allowance is being cut back down to £1.5m next year.
It shows how the medical profession has lost its way with this attitude from some doctors.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#3
If I heard correctly the average doctors pension should be around £70,000 a year.
No sympathy from me.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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The poor tax-payer subsidises all private pensions too. Let us not get back to the foolishness of us-and-them.
Certainly doctors and their ilk, in common with many others, benefited way over the odds with the rosy view taken by all in the last Parliament as to our combined future fortunes. They are at present doing what everybody would do and fighting their own corner; IF ONLY we were all in this together.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#5
No Tom - the taxpayers do not subsidise 'all private pensions'.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#6
mmmm a bit of a stink going on here.i heard it was to with the new [ish] nhs reform,nurses and mid wives have sided with the docters speking out against it.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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the new reforms have been castigated by nurses and midwives, not heard so much from the doctors.
the latter seem much more concerned about looking after themselves.
#8
Plus ca change.........
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#9
and the Royal college of nursing
not known for militancy has made it clear it will oppose outrght
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