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Author: Linda- Honorory Shipmate (Fuming !!!) |
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Date Posted: 24/10/07 11:14pm I'm not sure if this is the right forum or if I should be on the General Forum. And I know this is a subject that I have seen posted before, and will likely hit a sore spot for many of you. Dad moved out here to Canada October 29th last year. In January of this year he recieved a letter from BP stating that they had been trying to track him down because they had been reviewing their pension files. Apparantly Dad was owed some backdated pension. He filled in the form and we promptly returned it to BP. "Ya never knows lass I might be due faaaaasands of paaands" he said jokingly in his fake cockney accent. Of course we knew it probably wouldn't amount to much, but he had hoped it might be at least a few hundred quid or so. Well as I say that was back in January of this year.Never heard another thing from them. Dad mentioned it a couple of times just before he died saying that if they sent anything it was mine. Like I cared at that point. Anyway yesterday there was a letter in the post for Dad. It was from BP 4 months after his passing, and almost 10 months from replying to the original letter. I think you can all guess what I'm going to say. The letter was informing Dad that he was due an annual pension, and that it was going to be backdated to Jan 1st 2002 which was the day he turned 65. The princley sum of 5 pounds per year, or a one time lump sum payment of 43 pounds. Wooo Hooo !!! This is the thanks the Men and women of the Merchant Navy get for putting their lives at risk in order to ship oil for these multi billion dollar companies. This is all my loving Dad and the rest of you are worth. I am so bloody angry. I know some of you have even been given pensions of pennies a year. It is upsetting enough to get post for a deceased loved one, but to get a kick in the teeth like this, well I just cannot say the words I really would like to say, as I don't want anyone on here thinking badly of me. Stuff BP !!! I am now going to have a rendezvous with 'Captain Morgan'. God Bless all of you. Linda x. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| Re: BP Pensions | Hamish (if you need help) | 24/10/07 11:59pm |
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| Re: BP Pensions | Vernon (Similar!) | 25/10/07 12:09am |
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| Re: BP Pensions | jim brindley (linda) | 25/10/07 12:20pm |
| Re: BP Pensions | Jim Smith R395326 (Still learning) | 25/10/07 12:33pm |
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| Re: BP Pensions | john strange (4 Linda) | 26/10/07 5:51am |
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| Re: BP Pensions | Hamish (Flogging a Dead horse) | 26/10/07 4:27pm |
| Re: BP Pensions | Des Taff Jenkins (Happy for Linda) | 27/10/07 8:28am |
| Re: BP Pensions | Evan Lewis (Outraged) | 31/10/07 1:02pm |
| Re: BP Pensions | Hamish (Pensions) | 4/11/07 3:39pm |
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