LongTimeLurker

Except that they make it difficult for you to do so. I went to my local SS office with company HR, which just happened to be in the same building as the company. They told me to come back after my WP was cancelled. I went back after WP cancelled, again with company HR only to be told "cannot" you don't have a WP.

You need a letter of residence from immigration and copies of your passport (and the original I think.) You fill in a form, hand it over with the sellers forms and in half an hour you have a car.

Right, gotcha, a bit like the pensioners crying that they are worse off because of the change to the triple-lock, when they are still, in fact, better off than they were before.

But remember, it was the Romans that invented concrete. I've never had any problems with readymix concrete supplies here in Thailand, except when the client insisted on a spec where the concrete had to be delivered below 30C, but it was manageable even though we had some cement lumps. I'd have liked to have seen the spec for the Phase II project, whether the client amended it to not get the problems or not as I always suspected it was a ruse to get some kickback for relaxing the spec.

But remember, it was the Romans that invented concrete.

What's UC?

Well some of those condo structures at Stonehenge are still standing, as well as a load of old Greek, Roman and Egyptian ones.

But isn't it surprising that the OP didn't complain when his electricity bill HALVED due to the discounts? Now it's gone back to pre-discount normal pricing it's a problem?

I don't think you can get more than the maximum pension, and that is achieved at 35 contributions. Except by deferment, which I guess is what your last sentence refers to, but you have always been able to do that, it's just not worth it now.

The IOs must be so disappointed that the maximum fine is only Baht 20,000.

Not in Jomtien when I did my extension in January this year.

Immigration have never asked me for a bank statement for my retirement extension, only a copy of the updated passbook. However, for a guardian extension they require a 1 years bank statement, as well as the copy of the updated bankbook, and Kasikorn issue that immediately. Edit: They also require, for some mysterious reason, copies of the Blue Book as proof of address for the guardian extension, even though a foreigner cannot be included in a Blue Book?

37 years

So why has my mate who is not working been told by HMRC to continue paying until he gets his pension?

have you got a link for that? YES!! Found it now. https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance When you stop paying If you’re employed, you stop paying Class 1 National Insurance when you reach the State Pension age. If you’re self-employed you stop paying: Class 2 National Insurance when you reach State Pension age Class 4 National Insurance from 6 April (start of the tax year) after you reach State Pension age Doesn't say anything about Class 3 contributions though?

Didn't Toxin try the same thing with the Thailand Elite scheme? And how did that work out?

Ever thought of training up a few of the relatives so there might be a future generation of plumbers?

There isn't a competent plumber in the whole of Thailand!!

Not true, I didn't have a 13 digit number but I've been vaccinated, as has my wife who also didn't have one. But we have no so maybe it will be useful in the future. I tried with my tax card number and it wasn't accepted.

Yes, they will have to wear a yellow star on their clothes to show they've been vaccinated. If you feel you'll be a threat to anyone by transmitting Covid, why would you go out and mix with these tourists? Or anyone else?

Not as long as there's bars and girls.

Go on believing that one...lol Well, if you need to be double vaxxed as a tourist to enter the country do you not believe there will be a check on that? And why would anyone, except with family here, want to come if there's a curfew? So the way to attract tourists is by not telling them to go to bed by 21:00.

By entering the country they will have already proven that they have been double vaccinated, and there will be no curfew.

I think it's you that is misreading it. Firstly the headline makes no reference to the fact that nearly double the number of double jabbed are dying from Covid than unvaccinated. Secondly, you must have missed the following paras "In this time period, 37 people under the age of 50 who had been double jabbed and 1,054 over-50s have died after testing positive for the Delta variant – now the dominant strain of the virus in the UK. This compares to a total of 536 COVID deaths of unvaccinated people from all age grounds during that time."

I've only had mine rejected when the passport number on the licence does not match the passport number my bank has on record, e.g. when you get a new passport and then get a new driving licence before updating your bank record.