Eastenders - Current Episode Discussion - VIII

[Perdita]

Kathy needs a job. What happens to your pension when you've pretended to be dead? She's 64 according to http://eastenders.wikia.com/wiki/Kathy_Sullivan

Depends on if the "death" was ever officially notified to the authorities, I imagine

[parkerman]

Kathy needs a job. What happens to your pension when you've pretended to be dead? She's 64 according to http://eastenders.wikia.com/wiki/Kathy_Sullivan

Even if it was notified, when she reaches pensionable age she'll be entitled to her pension because she isn't actually dead. She will be done for fraud (as she is being) but she will still be entitled to her pension.

[maidmarian]

Theres a table on internet shows age when
women qualify for state pension. I think she
may already have qualified? Dependent on month
and year of birth.

Full pension payable if more than 30 yrs NI
contrubutions- lower amount if less years.
Not sure if any back dating-if dont claim
on time?

[maidmarian]

Dupl

[parkerman]

Theres a table on internet shows age when
women qualify for state pension. I think she
may already have qualified? Dependent on month
and year of birth.

Full pension payable if more than 30 yrs NI
contrubutions- lower amount if less years.
Not sure if any back dating-if dont claim
on time?

All I know is that whenever my wife nearly gets to pensionable age they move it on a few years. She started out expecting her pension at 60, we've now got up to 66!

[maidmarian]

All I know is that whenever my wife nearly gets to pensionable age they move it on a few years. She started out expecting her pension at 60, we've now got up to 66!

Yes - its upset a lot of peoples plans!!.At short
notice -in some cases.

When they started raising the age (in tranches)
a few years ago - women who thought they
would be retiring very shortly found out it
was deferred by 1-2 years and it went on
from.there.
The aim is meant to be to.equalise the
retirement age for men & women.
To 66 by 2020.and 67 by 2028.

Its sometimes thought theres a pension
pot with your NI contributions in it -
But theres no hidden funds- each years
current state pension.is paid out of
current contributions.
So with people living longer - who knows
what the age will eventually be!
Just hope your wife doesnt have to.wait too
long!

[Dazzle]

Stacey's guilty overreaction to Shabnam seeing the scan photo couldn't have been more obvious. I can't think of another reason she'd be so desperate to hide it other than the dates don't remotely match.

If Sharon stupidly released Gavin (as I now agree is likely), did she also give him the money from the safe? Is Gavin really so improbably cunning that he could manipulate a grown woman to protect him just minutes after she called the police on him?

Did anyone who like me reads the spoilers feel a shiver of anticipation at the mention of a lake at the site of Linda and Mick's wedding?

[maidmarian]

Re your final para in #9237 above-the answer
from me is YES- I hadnt realised it was at a lake-
assumed wedding near river?
Ive always thought lakes more eerie than
rivers or sea water!
Brought back a couple of memories

A bit from a poem by Edgar Allen Poe
called The Lake
"And Death was in its poisonous wave
And in its gulf a gruesome grave"

We were told the poem was about poets
loneliness and thoughts of suicide after
losing several family members to TB.

Secondly there was legend in the village
where we lived as children. It was said
that the ghost of a young woman in a
maids uniform would haunt the area
round the lake in the grounds of the Hall.
She had been in service there and got into
trouble by son of the house. No one would
help her/ she was turned out and drowned
herself in the lake. Was reputed to walk
on Anniversary of her death!

So all a bit creepy - but Im taking as a good
sign for the episode

[lizann]

think phil moved all his cash from house safe after ben previously took

[Rear window]

think phil moved all his cash from house safe after ben previously took

But Gavin knew the number cos they'd got it out of him. So Kathy knew the number too.
Unless Phil changed it. Which he'd have to be a spanner not to.