retired_justin05

Of course there a difference. He gets his wage guaranteed for life and it increases with inflation. It isn't means tested it's based on what he earned. She will be means tested and having 430,000 in the bank is going to cause a few problems there.

retired_justin05

No criticism there. No wonder your life is so **** if that's how you ask people polite questions.

retired_ks reddy

Of course there a difference. He gets his wage guaranteed for life and it increases with inflation. It isn't means tested it's based on what he earned. She will be means tested and having 430,000 in the bank is going to cause a few problems there. </BLOCKQUOTE>

I don't think compensation is taken into account in means testing, as it's there to compensate for injuries and having to leave your career rather than to sustain you day to day.

She can walk into another job tomorrow if she likes. Ben Parkinson is a legless ****ing vegetable. Bit of a difference there.

retired_justin05

You haven't answered why they should pay more for insurance yet recieve less in payments? </BLOCKQUOTE>

Well it isn't the same insurance for one. If we don't pay medical and travel insurance while travelling and something happens during that time well we just die. If you as an army dude doesn't pay medical and travel insurance and something happens on the battlefield they don't just say **** it and leave you there. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Feel uncomfortable saying this but had your girlfriend died and she'd been sent there as part of her job her employer wouldn't leave her there either. Had she not been employed the Swiss government would still have cared for any dependents.
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But then she wouldn't need travel insurance would she so that's what I mean when it isn't a fair comparison.

I don't believe army guys have to pay their own premiums to cover medical bills and evac costs in the event of injury. If you can link me to that though I'm more than happy to hold my hands up and admit I'm wrong.

retired_justin05

That's the problem though. I know on an emotional level there's a complete difference but on a legal level she's lost her ability to earn due to an injury sustained working for the MOD. Plus it's a preventable injury. Without knowing the details I'm guessing that part of the compensation would be due to the MOD taking insufficient measure to stop a preventable injury. Once again the same doesn't apply to Ben Parkinson. On an emotional level the guys deserves all the care in the world and millions of pounds but on a practical level the army has limited resource as determined by the govt and determined what the tax payers are willing to pay.

retired_ks reddy

Of course they don't, you pay the insurance because after you're medevac the compensation received will be a quarter what a civilian could expect, and this tops it up.

It's called the PAX scheme.

Premiums up to nearly a grand a year, and you have to pay 6 months premiums before you're covered. Lovely.

If you think people sent to the Far East on company business without travel insurance, you're wrong.

retired_ks reddy

That's the problem though. I know on an emotional level there's a complete difference but on a legal level she's lost her ability to earn due to an injury sustained working for the MOD. Plus it's a preventable injury. Without knowing the details I'm guessing that part of the compensation would be due to the MOD taking insufficient measure to stop a preventable injury. Once again the same doesn't apply to Ben Parkinson. On an emotional level the guys deserves all the care in the world and millions of pounds but on a practical level the army has limited resource as determined by the govt and determined what the tax payers are willing to pay. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Rubbish, she's lost her ability to type just like I've lost my ability to tile. You do something else instead.

As for the injury being preventable, you may be unaware that the MOD has spent a grand per person on ergonmic chairs and kit to prevent such injuries. While infantry still sleep on the rather unergonomic floor and don't claim for it.

Also you've misunderstood - I'm not saying Parkinson deserves more, I'm saying he deserves more than the typist. Much, much more.

retired_ks reddy

He also deserves a hospital or at least a dedicated ward where he doesn't have the addition concern that a visitor might smother him or a doctor/nurse might murder him.

retired_justin05

But they get an army disability pension relative to what they were earning and which increases with inflation. A civilan wouldn't unless they'd paid for it.

In fact thinking about it I'm guessing Parkinson will get his 19k a year plus state disability allowance whereas a civilians wouldn't get the initial 19k a month.

retired_justin05

You'll have to link me to the recent outbreak of soldier smothering in the NHS. Missed that one.