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AFPG (Richmonds).
Posted: Tue 22 Jul, 2003 9:53 pm
by Rod Spinks
Boy am I B----y mad reference this AFPG. I joined and have paid £400.00 into it only to get a letter saying if you send another £30.00 we will still keep the AFPG going.There was also talk of disbanding it altogether.I can't afford to lose that sort of money anyway. At the start it looked good for us 9 yr men also the 14 yr men but I'm beginning to smell a LARGE RAT amongst the people who have my money.Incidently Cherie B----y Blair was going to take up the case for a £1000 a day.She was turned down what B----y clown is running it now I don't know.How I fel right now is that if this circus go's belly up. I'll drive to Bristol myself and sort it out , enough is enough.
A very Angry former Marine.
Posted: Sun 27 Jul, 2003 1:23 pm
by Pilgrim Norway
Infamous Rod - infamous......
Good job we received our fiver a week - from '56 to '65......
Also - all those countries we served in were provided with trustworthy
foreign 'domestics' to clean up their problems.
I'll follow this thread with interest - wasn't aware of the problem until I
browsed through this article ! At least I'm included in something !
Give me a shout if you decide to descend upon them - I'll carry the other
side of the banner.
Cheers 'Aye
Posted: Sun 27 Jul, 2003 2:10 pm
by Mike
I thank god that I did not join this lot when I was asked... What amazes me is that NO Audit had been given or asked for.
My colleague is spitting dust and other substances and I can understand why, especially as he and the others are just the people who can illaford what is being asked.
Aye
Posted: Sun 27 Jul, 2003 2:46 pm
by owdun
I was a twelve year man,so no pension. I believe that if you entered the civil service,Royal Mail etc. your service counted toward your final pension. Thinking about that now, it seems bloody unfair that you only got it if you continued in govt. service, My civvy pension (works) didn,t start until I was 30 years old, made redundant at 52, ergo pittance to live on, bastards.
Aye Owdun.
Posted: Mon 28 Jul, 2003 4:31 pm
by Pilgrim Norway
Hello Owdun lad ...
I think that when i joined as a CS nine year ( 1956 ) man, the pension
started at fourteen years -
In order to qualify one had to re-engage for twenty two...... ( Smart eh? ).
"Yer takes yer shilling and yer takes yer chance"
" Touch the forelock smartly and be grateful "
'Aye
Posted: Wed 03 Sep, 2003 9:23 am
by Mike
Morning all.....
Read todays Daily Mirror ref AFPG Page 43 uner the heading Old Warriors facing defeat. for those in foreign lands I will try to get a URL... at the mement the DM page is still dated Tues 2nd Sept.
1942A.... further to the above..unable to find a URL for this article if anyone wants it I will scann it for you .....PM me
Posted: Wed 13 Apr, 2005 6:34 pm
by Pilgrim Norway
I'll try to warm this one up again ......
The 'In' price is now GBP585,-
I'm told that the case is in Strasbourg.........
Still seems a viable option - but the cost is steep.
www.afpg.info
What other chance do we have ? Individuals don't seem to have a look in.
All votes count this year, over there - right ?
Newspaper article again ?
Howay then - let's be hearing yez...
Posted: Wed 13 Apr, 2005 7:13 pm
by Mike
Interesting Post....Trog.
I like a few that I know, pulled out when it all got a wee bit expensive and especially when I found out that Cheri Blyre was involved, at a reported, exorbitant salary !!
I wish them all luck....but At this moment I just cannot afford that sort of money....
I don't understand that, if they change the law in our favour and pay up...then why won't all servicemen caught in this trap, benefit....Perhaps I have lost the plot
Aye
Mike
Posted: Wed 22 Jun, 2005 3:06 pm
by Pilgrim Norway
I've just sent an E mail to the editor of 'thisismoney' asking for any update
available......
Just to keep the thread alive - even though the MoD may wish it wasn't.
Imagine - some could have served 21 years with no pension rights !
Boggle, boggle.
'Aye