Pay your carer a pension or face a £400 fine:

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Pay your carer a pension or face a £400 fine:

Postby wendy » 25 Feb 2015, 15:05

More than 100,000 elderly and disabled people have been warned they face a £400 fine or prosecution if they don’t set up a pension for their carer.

Charities say they have been flooded with calls from the frail and vulnerable who have been left terrified by the threatening tone of letters sent out by watchdog The Pensions Regulator.

Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pens ... z3SllgviLC
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Re: Pay your carer a pension or face a £400 fine:

Postby maureenho » 25 Feb 2015, 15:40

Do they think the disabled and elderly have a money tree, whatever is this Country coming to.
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Postby Rosalind » 25 Feb 2015, 15:55

How frightening, for the elderly and disabled, most will not be able to afford it, if they have to do it.
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Postby annie » 25 Feb 2015, 16:58

Unbelievable!!
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Re: Pay your carer a pension or face a £400 fine:

Postby Honey » 25 Feb 2015, 22:03

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