Flawed solution to a real problem. Some pensioners continue to work because they are still paying off their mortgage or other debts including their children's. So they are to be penalised. Meanwhile some pensioners have a good income and don't need to work and they don't have to pay.

It is the same flawed solution to making pensioners pay for their care by taxing their estate when they die. I am retired and have lots of friends who have no savings and live in rented accommodation. For them it was a lifestyle choice, they earned good money and chose to P*** it up against the wall. I choose to buy my home but now I will be penalised whilst they get a freebie.

Don't kept me wrong I am willing to pay my share but so should other people unless you are poor. The only fair solution is to increase income tax so we all pay when we earn, after that we can save or spend as we see fit.

the fact remains there are many wealthy pensioners nowadays who should be paying more. I’d suggest we need much better means-testing to sort who should pay more.

So I've worked all my life,paid into the system,saved a bit for my old age,now some fcker tells me I've got too much and there going to take more.

Go fck yourself.

I guess that I come within your idea of a wealthy pensioner but a huge chunk of my income already goes to HMRC in the form of income tax. Do you expect me to pay even more?

By way of clarity, they have paid tax all their life and got public services back in return. Why should they now pay no tax but still enjoy the same services IF (big if) they can afford to pay as much as someone in the working population?

What has chronology got do do with anything?

As a PS, you are aware that recently the average income for pensioners passed the average income for the waged?