RPRA Retirement

Royal Pigeon Racing Association
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RPRA Office Manager, Julia Field, retired on Friday after more than 10 years. She said: ‘I have thoroughly enjoyed my time working at the RPRA and will especially miss all the people. Thank you to everyone for the wonderful gifts and for sending me off in style’. All the best for a long and happy retirement, Julia!

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Good luck to the lady, every worker deserves a decent retirement regardless of their job.

barnie wrote:

Good luck to the lady, every worker deserves a decent retirement regardless of their job.

Agree doubt very much somehow if one could blame her etc Colin for the chaotic type mess of your RPRA there as such.

maybe the rpra are cutting back on un needed staff, over £400,00 per year and £50,00 on temporary staff..... i suppose there has to be cutbacks at some point eh .

my thinking David

i still need to pay my extra rpra money yet .......

son has mine with the corn money and more rings as want to double ring some ybs from the loan pair

David wrote:

maybe the rpra are cutting back on un needed staff, over £400,00 per year and £50,00 on temporary staff..... i suppose there has to be cutbacks at some point eh .

You suppose I would have thought it was obvious etc David Blind man would even know what's required there now type thing.

she is a young looking 65

George & Morgan wrote:

she is a young looking 65

Suspect George the thought of retirement would make everyone young & happy as such 10 years of putting up with moaning groaning type pigeon flyers in general lady deserves a gold medal type thing from my perspective here.

mmmmmmmm why all of a sudden eh ,imo its been far too cushty at the rpra offices akin to a holiday camp hence why we are in the mire,not that its the fault of the lady retiring but who does the hiring and firing at the rpra who makes the final decision or is it made by a majority vote by the board ,now that would explain why theres 3 vice presidents and a president eh ,plenty of voting power

George & Morgan wrote:

she is a young looking 65

she does george, my guess is she is younger than 65, and took early retirement ( been on a good wage for years)

and now a rpra pension

Anyone can retire and access their company/private pension from the age of 55.
Sounds good but in reality you lose around 5% a year for every year you pack in early.
Normal pension age now is up to 67, so anyone taking early retirement for example at 57 years of age would end up losing 50% of their projected pension, criminal because it's their money end of the day. Money theyve contributed every month that the administrators have managed to get handsome bonuses from regardless of how much the investment returns.
The more you look at company pensions the more you'll find it's a minefield, but the odds are always stacked against anyone retiring early.`

i worked for a college Colin we had a small pension when there 13 years they took us into a larger pension in this one we had to pay into it but what they done they back dated there payments and our payments from when we started one chap only had a week till retirement so paid nothing getting a good pension

he definitely scored there George, being a week from retirement.

If he'd been 55 at the time he would only have received about half his pension pot.

when i left i had 25 years service paid in for 12 years got £15,000 i cash and £2000 a year for last 24 years and when they wanted to end it i was not there but had to agree and got £7,000 for saying yes

the way the government talk is as though the pension money is a benefit, truth is the people have worked and paid this money in to the system ....

exactly David, won't be long before the tax free lump sums are scrapped too. Anyone that sets the alarm clock, gets up and does a days work, contributes with tax and NI, works from 16 year old to 67 year old is screwed over in the UK . No wonder there's multiple jobs vacancies can't be filled, mugs game in this country.

strange after 20 years my private pension was taxed for first time

barnie wrote:

exactly David, won't be long before the tax free lump sums are scrapped too. Anyone that sets the alarm clock, gets up and does a days work, contributes with tax and NI, works from 16 year old to 67 year old is screwed over in the UK .  No wonder there's multiple jobs vacancies can't be filled, mugs game in this country.

Job vacancies more of the same/similar with your recent boat brigade there etc Colin       should perhaps maybe be able to fix that problem I suggest .

George & Morgan wrote:

strange after 20 years my private pension was taxed for first time

That probably will be because you have an annual income above £12570, the tax threshold. Anything you get above this figure you'll pay 20% tax on it. crazy, even when retired they chip away at your hard earned funds.

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barnie wrote:

exactly David, won't be long before the tax free lump sums are scrapped too. Anyone that sets the alarm clock, gets up and does a days work, contributes with tax and NI, works from 16 year old to 67 year old is screwed over in the UK .  No wonder there's multiple jobs vacancies can't be filled, mugs game in this country.

Job vacancies more of the same/similar with your recent boat brigade there etc Colin       should perhaps maybe be able to fix that problem I suggest . [/quote

not convinced they risk their lives just to take a job knackered, maybe eyes on a different prize