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Why do we not have earnings related old age pensions? Why should someone who has worked all their life get the same govrnment pension as someone who has not? This is unfair and unjust. It is time that we who have paid our national insurance premiums all our working lives got back some of what we paid in. Our contributions are subsidising the claimants that have never worked. This is wrong and discourages the work ethic,

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