This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Review MPs pension age.
Debate why we the people have to wait for our pension, when the MPs get a much more generous pension much earlier.
Would like to see MPs wait till the same retirement age to receive their pensions.
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For many years the state pension has been moved so it is received later in life, the MPs pension is not treated the same.
The incumbent government is always saying "we are in it together" , now they can show it.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
The Government and Parliament don’t have the power to set MPs’ pay and pensions. That power was given by Parliament to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) in 2010, so that after 2012 MPs no longer had control over their own pay. IPSA conducted a public consultation after 2012 and decided what the salaries of MPs should be after the election.
If you would like to contact IPSA about its decision, here’s how to contact them:
http://parliamentarystandards.org.uk/About%20Us/Pages/Contact-Us.aspx
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