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Re:Cash-strapped councils switch off CCTV cameras across UK by phaemon on Saturday May 23, 2015 @12:26PM (#9593391)
People are paid pensions because they're owed pensions. They've been paying into the system their entire lives, and are entitled to that money. To describe it as 'welfare' is entirely misleading.
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Re:Cash-strapped councils switch off CCTV cameras across UK by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday May 23, 2015 @02:09PM (#9593754)
You could argue the same about other benefit claimants, but this is besides the point. Most of the welfare budget is spent on pensions.
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Re:Cash-strapped councils switch off CCTV cameras across UK by phaemon on Saturday May 23, 2015 @11:54PM (#9595260)
No, I couldn't claim that a 19 year old claiming JSA had been "paying into the system their entire lives". Do you not see the difference between someone in that situation and someone who's been paying NI for the past 50 years and is now claiming their pension?

The fact that pensions happen to be grouped in the same category as benefits is irrelevant. If they were in a separate category it would hardly change the figures.

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Re:Cash-strapped councils switch off CCTV cameras across UK by branchless on Saturday May 23, 2015 @04:45PM (#9594315)
Correct. And there is zero info on this in our media. Same as local council pension spending which another poster had no clue about until informed.
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