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Can Get Us Social Security If Renounce Us Citizenship?


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Not sure about the States but in the UK pensions are no longer index linked, you get what you are given at 65 and that is the figure for life..

 

No Wonder so many brits are now leaving Thailand and going back to UK to live on the Social.

 

Personally I am not a fan of state pension, I was laughed when I started paying into a Private Pension Scheme when I started work as a 16 year old but 33 years later and it is worth a few bob.

 

I don't trust governments period, Social Security NO I prefer private health care, State Pensions, NO i prefer private investments, governments are like religion and relied upon by too many people since they are not aware of the alternatives.

 

OK I am an agnostic anarchist, hell I pay my way in life and get more value from money based upon my own investments than any government could offer me.

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That non-index linking applies to your state pension if you start taking it as a non UK resident. Bizarrely it seems that if were you resident in the PI it would still be index linked, weird or what! I presume that if you start taking it in Thailand and then return to UK it would again become index linked. This is state pension not your private or company pension. I have a final salary company (outsourced) pension I paid into for 33 years, hope that holds up. I'm not old enough to qualify for state pension at 65, right now I think I qualify at 66 but anybody under 50 is looking at 67 or more I think plus a reduction in monthly amount if your NI contributions are not enough.

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RM'

 

As I said, I don't trust politicians with my money, if they were any good they would be working in the Private sector and not the public sector.

 

As a grammar school pupil I had an issue with authority (nothing new there for me) and stated people who can do, people who can't teach. I was defined as a disruptive pupil and suspended. I had to see a child shrink or whatever they were called back then and stood my ground, if the guy was any good at his profession why the hell is he earning a subsistance salary and putting up with a 13 year old prick like me,

 

I proved my point and was allowed to return back to school much to the headmasters dismay, sorry sir I saw a prick and I called it!

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The only reasons that someone would take a low paying government job are benefits and pensions. It used to include job security. Of course, there are those who become cops (or some other position of authority) because they like to f##k people over.

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Dean, in Thailand where there are less opportunities I would agree with you, I am sure that this country has the highest percentage of public sector workers than any other country in the world.

 

In the UK it is quite different, people don't become politicians to serve the public that elected them, they do it for their own gain. The number of MP's on the boards of private companies, and it just so happens that their own government departments award public sector money to private companies that they are on the board of directors off, it is just as corrupt as Thailand but done a bit more undercover.

 

Tony Blair didn't become a Multi-Milllionaire from being Prime Minister now did he, he used his position for his own gains to line his own pockets, they are all a bunch of hypocrites. .

 

Post WWII the UK was the envy off the world on how soon it recovered, most industries were nationalised and profits reinvented into infrastructure and put aside for employees pensions. Then came along Thatcher who sold everything off, sod the average working man and allow the top 10% to get even richer whilst bankrupting the nation. Now that England has bled Scotland dry of all the income from North Sea Oil and Gas we give them devolution.

 

England is bankrupt, there are insufficient funds for future pension payments, there is no such thing as a "Job for Life" anymore, shit my only job for life was as an apprentice and then at 20 I was made redundant so for the past 30 years have been a contractor following the money all over the world.

 

I was raised as a Socialist, but over the years my ideas have changed and now I just look out for number one. I get better health care for a lower cost by being private than I would do if I was using the UK NHS, I have a more secure future taking care of my own investments rather than paying into the UK Social Security fund.

 

Nowadays I take care of my self and my family, sod the rest of them, maybe I am becoming Thai.

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