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Pity the French?

09 November 2010 / Peter Arrowsmith
Issue: 4280 / Categories: Comment & Analysis , Income Tax
PETER ARROWSMITH reviews the NIC effects of changes to the state pension age

KEY POINTS

  • The increasing state pension age for women born on or after 6 April 1950.
  • NICs for employees and the self-employed will be payable for a longer period.
  • The effect on the payment of contracted-out contributions.
  • The payment of benefits will also be affected.
  • Looking into the future to more pension age increases.

You have to feel sorry for the French protesting and striking as they are because their government wants to increase the state pension age (SPA) to a mere 62 years of age.

Poor little lambs; sorry not a good word to use when remembering what the French have done to English apples and sheep in past disputes over the decades.

Over here the Pensions Act 1995 (no this is not...

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