Our pension has increased

I like the coloring on the quenda/bandicoot. Mike is getting a raise with his social security in Jan.. I'm still have a few years before I can collect, if it is still around.

That’s how I feel when I got a cost of living increase in my Social Security. Let me tell you, I live it up. What a great picture, by the way.

What does a fortnight mean? Once a month?

I’m not sure how much $1.07 is in £ Sterling but I am guessing not much. Our state pension will go up next April by 8.5%. This equates to a monthly rise of about £75 for a full pension. This sounds like a lot more than you, based on number of extra ice creams you can buy with the increase. Here it equates to about 25 £3 ice creams. Of course if you want a flake in it, or extra toppings, that might drop it down to 20 or less. Still a lot more than you can afford. And here is me thinking life is idyllic in Oz. Not when you can’t afford 25 ice creams it’s not. I wonder how many Italian gelatos £25 can buy in Italy? @LadyDuck Anyway, Judy. Enjoy your ice cream. P.S. I am not quite at state pension age (66) so I have a year or so before I can even think of eating 25 extra ice creams. Until then I’ll just have to share in your pleasure.

I'm glad you can get an extra ice cream cone with your raise. I'm getting a raise too in my Social Security. I'll join you with an ice cream cone once a month. Is the bandicoot from the rodent family?

The bandicoot looks like rats in our country. Is it some sort of rodent? Well, that's a very nominal increase, but I am sure that Vince and You would enjoy that icecream

Nice Judy..it is always welcome. I hope it helps. We are also getting a bit of a raise soon.

The photo loaded, I am glad that I can see your cute quenda. WOW, that is a "huge" increase in your pension. We sill do not know, may be we will get a 1% increase.

@judyev Don’t spend it all in the one shop. Lucky me though, my state pension increases in April (though I don’t start receiving it till this January) from £812 a month to £863 a month.

My social security and pension both are increasing where one is an extra $49 and the other is an extra $39. The kicker, my insurances are increasing so I'll see about an extra $29 a month. Guess that can be looked at I can get a few extra days of vegetables. The president said it was to help the economy. Last year's increase was larger.

That is good news that your pension has increased from the MyGov mailbox.

That's all we pensioners can think of. It doesn't increase that much to do something expensive.

Congratulations on the pension increase. Don't spend it al in one place! lol That's a cute bandicoot. Have a great day and weekend.

Nice to know.

That's good, in my country there hasn't been any information about increasing pensions and what found is only prices continuing to rise.

Ahhh, so impressive. But won't those ice creams go up in price as well???

Wow, don’t spend it all in one place! Social Security pensions in the U.S. are going up 3.2%, not 3.2 cents.

I know that you’d have appreciated more, but it’s better then nothing.

Such a cute animal. WOW, such a big increase, I am also having an addition to my SS in January, At least every bit does count but it could be more,

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