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, at 10:40:57 on Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Recliner
remarked:
But then you could argue, why does a 60 year old banker who has taken
early retirement with a large pension get free travel, when a 60 year
old who is still working 40hrs a week on minimum wage gets nothing?

Because the "free travel" thing is for the retired, not the employed.

Actually the grounds for getting a Freedom Pass are Age or Disability. It
doesn't mention employment/retirement status.

Currently; but that's a simplification of the original intention, which
was to try to assist the mobility of the "poor and aged".

Somewhere along the line, an assumption was made that all the aged are
poor. The same failure may come home to roost regarding winter fuel
payments.
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Roland Perry