Pension Injustice
Similar thing happened to me.
I came down with Rheumatoid Artritis whilst serving and I was finally "boarded" with about 18 months left to do.
I was told that I could levae now and get absolutely nothing bar my resettlement grant (pension etc when I was 60) or stay in a vastly reduced medical cat (no more promotion and no chance of signing on any further) and complete my service.
Had I known the that this was bo**ocks, I would have been medically discharged then, had my pension made up to full service and immediately paid, my commutation would have been a grant and not to pay back abd my entire pension tax free.
By MoD "smoke and mirrors" behavior, I was thus "discharged at end of service" and not medically discharged. Regardless of anything, that effectivel ended my carreer.
Try and convince MoD that I was given incompetently or even deliberately wrong advice is a total waste of time because their only answer is that I chose to stay in and be discharged normally and refuse to see further than that.
Given that they have only just admitted that there were personnel on Christmas Island watching Sunshine Bombs going off, I feel anyone trying to get fairly treated is a waste of time.
I used to be proud of my service, now I realise I was working for a bunch of cheap shysters.
Doc C
PS, not trying to compare my service to Chindits, by the way.
Signed too!
I came down with Rheumatoid Artritis whilst serving and I was finally "boarded" with about 18 months left to do.
I was told that I could levae now and get absolutely nothing bar my resettlement grant (pension etc when I was 60) or stay in a vastly reduced medical cat (no more promotion and no chance of signing on any further) and complete my service.
Had I known the that this was bo**ocks, I would have been medically discharged then, had my pension made up to full service and immediately paid, my commutation would have been a grant and not to pay back abd my entire pension tax free.
By MoD "smoke and mirrors" behavior, I was thus "discharged at end of service" and not medically discharged. Regardless of anything, that effectivel ended my carreer.
Try and convince MoD that I was given incompetently or even deliberately wrong advice is a total waste of time because their only answer is that I chose to stay in and be discharged normally and refuse to see further than that.
Given that they have only just admitted that there were personnel on Christmas Island watching Sunshine Bombs going off, I feel anyone trying to get fairly treated is a waste of time.
I used to be proud of my service, now I realise I was working for a bunch of cheap shysters.
Doc C
PS, not trying to compare my service to Chindits, by the way.
Signed too!
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31 signatures to go!
Saw Richard this evening. He's about to have an eye operation and is looking very frail. The petition is at 169 signatures this evening. It needs another 31 to make it to Downing Street. Grateful if you Pruners who haven't signed yet would consider it. The injustice, in fact it is official government THEFT from a man who put his life on the line, makes me want to kill the b*stards who are responsible for dragging this on.
Saw Richard this evening. He's about to have an eye operation and is looking very frail. The petition is at 169 signatures this evening. It needs another 31 to make it to Downing Street. Grateful if you Pruners who haven't signed yet would consider it. The injustice, in fact it is official government THEFT from a man who put his life on the line, makes me want to kill the b*stards who are responsible for dragging this on.
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Not a denizen of the Sceptred Isle so unable to sign, but with you in spirit. Give it horns...
As much as folk seem to enjoy carping about the USA, they do seem to get it right with regard to their servicemen.
As much as folk seem to enjoy carping about the USA, they do seem to get it right with regard to their servicemen.
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Pension Injustice:
Yet another example of the level of contempt that this government and MOD Civil Servants regard our forces and veterens. An absolute disgrace in my humble opinion.
Petition signed.
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signed and will circulate.
this is a travesty, but no suprise.
if you want my contacts to help circulate the story more please PM me!
keep the faith.
give the MoD enough rope they will hang themselves (metaphorically speaking!) please be comfoted by the fact that there are still those of us beavering away in the background still trying to get them brought to task for the wrong they have done.
this is a travesty, but no suprise.
if you want my contacts to help circulate the story more please PM me!
keep the faith.
give the MoD enough rope they will hang themselves (metaphorically speaking!) please be comfoted by the fact that there are still those of us beavering away in the background still trying to get them brought to task for the wrong they have done.
Chappie, having just replied to your post on the 'Parliamentary' thread with this:
I was jolted out of my feelings of false euphoria by reading this thread. Gulf of neglect? Rather a gaping chasm! These jobsworths are contemptible in the way they treat those to whom they owe their very freedoms. One just instinctively knows that they would have been the ones manning the desks of the Third Reich if 1940 had played out so very slightly differently... "well, somebody has to do it", the weasel justification of the apparatchiks throughout the ages. Reform the MOD now, from top to bottom, before it destroys our ability to defend ourselves entirely! Rant ends.
Oh, nearly forgot, signed!
Let us hope that it is part of a general realisation by 'those in power' that they have more to lose by treating people in a cavalier and contemptuous manner than by according them the respect that they deserve.....
in any event if that is so then there is still a gulf of neglect to make up for.
in any event if that is so then there is still a gulf of neglect to make up for.
Oh, nearly forgot, signed!
Signed...if it weren't so sad it would be truly laughable. Pound to a pinch of poop someone in the system has an email that suggests that stringing this out will reduce the amount the dept has to pay. Penny pinching sh!tbags. If this was about MP's pensions it would be dealt with lickety-split. Greedy pigs have always got their own interests first and their snouts in OUR trough
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