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That's what bothers me. I think it's ridiculous that retired people are made to pay tax anyway. They should set the limits higher for retirement income, so that the uber-wealthy pay tax, but schmucks like us, who saved and went without during our working years to provide for ourselves in retirement, so that we wouldn't be dependent on the government for a pension, or medical, wouldn't be penalised for doing this. If I complained, they'd tell me that there are pensioners surviving on their government pension which is less than a tenth of our net income. Still, we pay the same prices for services and goods that everyone else does and when prices go up, we have less money to spend. Damn excrement!

If my DH passes on first, I'll have to transfer this house into my name, meaning that I'll have to pay transfer duty a second time on the same house. Ridiculous. We thought of putting it in both our names, but they still make you move it to the surviving spouse's name even if you do that. Argh! I shouldn't rant about this stuff just before I go to bed.