Also had the options to have it payed back into SERPS to increase your years I remember at the time it was all a big fast
Contracted out of SERPS means you may get a separate pension for that, maybe they've added both together ?
Bit of a funny day today.
Took W's Pluriel to the tyre place to see what was needed. We agreed, two new fronts, balance and the tracking done.
I walked to scroofix to pick up some bits, when I came back they told me they had taken the wheels off but couldn't do the full job as they couldn't balance em.
?????
Apparently Pluriels have no centre hole in the wheels and their balancing machines can no longer do them.
They rang around and the Blandford branch had some.
So I tootled off home got on tinternet to find their number, rang em up and yes they could do it all if I got there in narf an 'our.
So rushed off and just made it, lots of (swearing at slow drivers, road works, noo speed limits etc.).
It took them a flipping hour to do the job and then they pointed out a bit of funniness as regards the wear pattern on the front discs. The tracking was within specs but we all agreed there was wear on the inside edges, so they put them bang on zero.
So I got to talking to all sorts of peeps while waiting. That was nice.
Finally made it back home through pigging traffic 2 hours after I set off from home. Bang went the arternoon!
And 212 sovs.
@kevstar will know about these wheels.
Have to confess that although I maintain her car I had never noticed this!! Rather weird methinks Never having come across it before. Never had to take the rear hubs off. (Discs on rear.) This has got me wondering now how the handbrake works!!
Anyway, have a lovely evening!
It has been sunny and crisp today ere!
I do have the full breakdown of MY NIC payments by year. But how does this equate to the ordinary joe on the street self-employed and paying only the minimum stamp (was £2.65/wk when I was self-employed in 2013 and 20% of profits over a ceiling figure). But, if your accountant shows you made SFA profit all you pay is £2.65 for the full pension rights and full NHS care. How is this ever fair????
So he is a "He" then. He'd be a She if he was a Merkin.
Wot's his surname, "Redboob"?
And it is nice that you let him in the teahut, rather than send him to the stores for a "long stand"!!!
Wot bikkies you gots??
Been working 18 years already but I'll probably have to make 60 years payments.Sorry to hear you are possibly behind in your payments to the state.
If I could find a decent original VW 1303 of 1970's vintage I'd be very interested.Alsorts of biccys cakes n other goodies that customers bring in.
Thermostat for a vw beetle is a hard find
This is what I go by......your only here once so stuff it im having what I want. Worked hard did we.........
You might not be comparing like with like. My state pen is paid every 4 weeks, 13 times a year, not 12 x monthly payments. I think I am on close to a full pension, but not sure. Currently 200 sovs every 4 weeks. Also, just had a letter from Dpt for Works n pensions today, the state pension rises on the 10th April. Mine rises to 217 sovs per week. (Plus about 500 sovs extra in winter as us old folk need to be kept warm so we gets a fuel allowance. Diesel n whiskey
Ah, well done Cpl. Jones, I wondered who would spot that first
. 800 sovs per 4 weeks.
Re wheels being balanced on the car, I had the knock-on wire wheels on my Marlin Roadster done like that. It was fantastic, it meant that all the running gear, disc, hub etc was balanced along with the tyre and wheel. But you can no longer get it done now, as far as I know. I asked about it and they said that elf and safety kicked it into touch along with so few people seeing the need for/wanting it. But I bet that classic car restorers, well some of them, probably still have the gear.
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Re wheels being balanced on the car, I had the knock-on wire wheels on my Marlin Roadster done like that. It was fantastic, it meant that all the running gear, disc, hub etc was balanced along with the tyre and wheel. But you can no longer get it done now, as far as I know. I asked about it and they said that elf and safety kicked it into touch along with so few people seeing the need for/wanting it. But I bet that classic car restorers, well some of them, probably still have the gear.
I asked them how they changed the tyre and they said that that wouldn't be a problem. Just the balancing.
As @kevstar worked for years in the tyre trade I'm sure he'll know.
I have just found ONE company that still does it.
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Car wheel and tyre balancing in-situ on the vehicle, perfect for wire wheels and vintage vehicles where large unbalanced brake drums & harsh suspensions means that all road wheel vibration is transmitted to the car, in the form of cabin noise and steering wheel shudder.Remember; “vintage cars...
Ouch, the price!!
Id be pumping the beads/sand into the tyre like commercial tyres, I dont know anyone who does this anymore.
My case is similar to your W's. I worked 4 years before uni, (one year in France for which believe it or not I could claim a pathetic pension off the frogs, maybe I will one day), then 33 years and 2 terms of teaching. So 37 years. But when they contacted me re my pension and I felt some contributory time had gone west they very peremptorily told me that I had paid in what I needed to and basically to go away I'd get what I should!
Part of the problem and reasons for the obfuscation is that they have changed the rules like mad over the past few years.
Short answer, yes you have both paid in enough but if you have either been "contracted out" at some point then over that period you will not have been making full contributions. Which does look like it happened.
We've got one.
