Season tics

[jdfc]

When people leave school and start their working career they cannot possibly hope to earn the same wage/salary as a person who is about to retire.
The age limit for the National Entitlement Card (bus pass) in Scotland is still 60. Therefore I think that the age for concession season tickets and season tickets at Dundee Football Club should also be 60.
I would not have increased the age requirement for concession tickets and season tickets the way that the Dundee Football Club directors did it.
At a stroke they increased the age from 60 to 65.
However they had not done their homework and this jump from 60 to 65 created a problem.
Existing season ticket holders who were aged 61 to 64 years old continued to receive their season ticket at the price for season ticket holders aged 65 and over.
However a Dundee supporter aged 62 purchasing a season ticket for the first time had to pay the full Adult price for a season ticket until they became 65 years old.
In my the Dundee Football Club directors should have increased the age requirement to quality for an OAP season ticket from 60 to 61 the first year, 62 years old the next year and each subsequent year until they reached 65 years old.
This would have allowed a person aged 62 who was purchasing a season ticket for the first time to qualify for the concession rate if the age limit was 61 years old.

Do you think that a 60 year old in full time employment, possibly mortgage free should have free bus travel

[notso]

Do you think that a 60 year old in full time employment, possibly mortgage free should have free bus travel

Yes well I do , means testing is not the way forward and never should be , I’ll ask you do you think it’s fair a man/ woman lying in a nursing home worked hard all their lives and own their house , should have pay for their keep with their bought and paid for house , while some guy lying next to them hasn’t done a days work in his life never paid taxes gets his stay for free ? To me if your entitled due to age then you should get it no matter your savings , that’s bus pass, nursing stay or season ticket to dens

[islaydarkblue]

Yes well I do , means testing is not the way forward and never should be , I’ll ask you do you think it’s fair a man/ woman lying in a nursing home worked hard all their lives and own their house , should have pay for their keep with their bought and paid for house , while some guy lying next to them hasn’t done a days work in his life never paid taxes gets his stay for free ? To me if your entitled due to age then you should get it no matter your savings , that’s bus pass, nursing stay or season ticket to dens

I agree with everything you say.
However I will take things a stage further regarding nursing homes and care homes fees which some posters on here might not be aware of.
A person resident in a care home or nursing home who pays their own fees pays higher fees to subside the cost of people having their care home or nursing home fees paid by their local authority.
The local authority does a ‘deal’ with the owners of a care home or nursing home whereby the local authority pays a lower weekly rate whilst the residents paying their own weekly fees (they are known as self funders) pay a higher weekly rate to offset this loss in income by the owners of the care homes and nursing homes.
My father was a resident of a nursing home and I remember my brother saying to me that every resident in his nursing home was a self funder so they were getting full value for money instead of paying an inflated weekly fee to subsidise residents whose weekly fees are paid by their local authority.
Politicians will never tell you about this anomaly regarding care homes and nursing homes where people are being penalised for trying to better themselves.

[jdfc]

Yes well I do , means testing is not the way forward and never should be , I’ll ask you do you think it’s fair a man/ woman lying in a nursing home worked hard all their lives and own their house , should have pay for their keep with their bought and paid for house , while some guy lying next to them hasn’t done a days work in his life never paid taxes gets his stay for free ? To me if your entitled due to age then you should get it no matter your savings , that’s bus pass, nursing stay or season ticket to dens

I think it’s shocking anyone should have to pay for care at an older age, and give up everything they have paid for through out their working life, the part I’m getting at is freebies should be there for folk that need them, I work with boys who have free bus passes, and I know what they earn, I just don’t think it’s right

It’s also wrong that someone who hasn’t done a days work gets a bigger government pension than those that have worked all their lives to pay for the pension just because they also paid out of their wages for a private pension

[islaydarkblue]

Do you think that a 60 year old in full time employment, possibly mortgage free should have free bus travel

Why not.
A 60 year old person who has not worked a day in their life and lived off the ‘social’ is also entitled to a free bus pass.
The 60 year old person who has been in full time employment throughout their working life has paid their taxes to pay for the Scottish Government National Entitlement Card (bus pass) which is paid for by the money the Scottish Government receives from the Westminster Government under the rules of the Barnett Formula.

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National Entitlement Card.

And there you have it. A sense of entitlement is enshrined in society.

[islaydarkblue]

And there you have it. A sense of entitlement is enshrined in society.

Blame Alex Salmond. He was the First Minister when the National Entitlement Card scheme was introduced.
It could have easily been called ‘Free national bus pass’.

[jdfc]

Why not.
A 60 year old person who has not worked a day in their life and lived off the ‘social’ is also entitled to a free bus pass.
The 60 year old person who has been in full time employment throughout their working life has paid their taxes to pay for the Scottish Government National Entitlement Card (bus pass) which is paid for by the money the Scottish Government receives from the Westminster Government under the rules of the Barnett Formula.

I don’t think 60 year old should have a free bus pass

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I don’t think 60 year old should have a free bus pass

I don't think anyone should have one