OAP
If you're approaching your state retirement age, an inconsistency based on age (the difference could be as few as a day or so seperating retirees) will drag on for years - pensions apartheid used to refer to defined benefit and defined contribution schemes.
The state saves close to £100 millions each year by not having to means test - aside from that, would it announce means testing for the basic benefit before 2015? I think they would be insane to want to do that. Oh, hang on.
Ian Cowie writes with admirable venon about pension apartheid.
pensions apartheid ? Telegraph Blogs