Submitted on Monday 17th October 2011
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Abolition of the Armed Forces Immediate Pension
The government is planning to end the present Armed Forces pension schemes. Presently, a serviceman receives an immediate pension after completing a full career in their respective Force. Under the new scheme, they will not receive this until they are 60.
THIS AFFECTS SERVING AND FUTURE SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN.
Despite doing a unique and at times deadly job for the country, the government is still planning to take their pensions from them, replacing it with a more civilian style pension, that starts a mere 5 years earlier than a civil servant's.
After anything between 22-37 years service, an ex servicemen tends to struggle to readjust to regular working life. The pension helps them cope with a drastic change in their life, especially if their career has taken its toll on their health.
It is a breaking of the armed forces covenant. It is creating an imbalance between what our service personnel do for the nation and what the nation does for our service personnel.
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