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April 12, 2026 at 12:38 #1763371
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The State Pension was legally termed a benefit in the Pension Act 2014

A petition moaning about this was presented to parliament in 2016

https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/121267#:~:text=In%20addition%2C%20the%20introduction%20of,provided%20through%20private%20pension%20arrangements.

The paltry 14,681 signatures indicates that only a small minority choose to obsess about the word benefit, which is really just a convenient catch-all term to describe payments made by government to individuals.