Varadkar stated previously that he recognised the gross unfairness that resulted from the 2012 changes to the method of assessing entitlement. Those changes resulted in a small number of pensioners being singled out for massive cuts in their entitlements. The fairest way to reduce the pension costs was to cut equally across the board if such a cut was justifiable but this would have meant a serious threat to the election prospects of Fine Gael/Labour candidates so they took the cowardly way and lumped the entire cut onto a small number of citizens. It is grossly unfair, and discriminatory, that a person with more contributions should be getting a smaller pension than a person with fewer contributions and that must be addressed.It must also be stated here that it is women who predominately bore the brunt of this dreadful cut.
Jim O'Sullivan
Posted on 3 Mar 2017 4:51 pm
Varadkar stated previously that he recognised the gross unfairness that resulted from the 2012 changes to the method of assessing entitlement. Those changes resulted in a small number of pensioners being singled out for massive cuts in their entitlements. The fairest way to reduce the pension costs was to cut equally across the board if such a cut was justifiable but this would have meant a serious threat to the election prospects of Fine Gael/Labour candidates so they took the cowardly way and lumped the entire cut onto a small number of citizens. It is grossly unfair, and discriminatory, that a person with more contributions should be getting a smaller pension than a person with fewer contributions and that must be addressed.It must also be stated here that it is women who predominately bore the brunt of this dreadful cut.