58% and rising

[noahrab]

New Scottish pensioners would be the responsibility of the scottish government, no vagueness there. Existing UK pensioners who live in Scotland is the complication. The UK Pension Authority had said UK pensioners at the time of any independence would still be rUK responsibility but politicians will say otherwise. The Better Together campaign of course lied to pensioners telling them their pensions would stop overnight. Nasty business, this politics stuff.

I don’t think they did.

They rightly pointed out that an iScotland would have to fund pensions from day 1 and questioned the economics behind it.

[Taintedice]

I don’t think they did.

They rightly pointed out that an iScotland would have to fund pensions from day 1 and questioned the economics behind it.

There was something from the treasury but obviously people like Gordon Brown said something totally different. It's impossible to say what would happen as everything would be up for negotiation but people who had paid NI conts all their lives to the UK wouldn't be happy having to rely on a new Scottish government to pay their pensions. I'd happily take a refund of all my NI conts and stick it into a Scottish pension fund.

[noahrab]

There was something from the treasury but obviously people like Gordon Brown said something totally different. It's impossible to say what would happen as everything would be up for negotiation but people who had paid NI conts all their lives to the UK wouldn't be happy having to rely on a new Scottish government to pay their pensions. I'd happily take a refund of all my NI conts and stick it into a Scottish pension fund.

The Scottish gov were dragged kicking and screaming by an FOI request to admit they would be responsible for pensions from day 1.

A lot of the daft independenistas think pensions would double or treble in an iScotland.