Retired UK civil servant ordered to pay back £25,000 after pension scheme error

OMG, can you believe this? £25k pension error is just ridiculous! 🤯 I mean, Derek Ritchie has been living on that pension since 2014 and now he's being forced to go back to work because of a mistake that wasn't even his fault! 😱 And to make matters worse, the company managing the scheme, Capita, is just using fancy words like "expertise and innovation" to cover up their own incompetence. 🙄 I feel so bad for this guy, he's already 63 and now he's being forced to work again because of a mistake that could've been easily avoided if someone had double-checked the figures! 😔
 
😞 this is just awful. £25k pension error and now he's gotta pay it all back? 🤯 that's not just unfair, it's also kinda cruel. I mean, 11 years of planning for retirement and it's all because some numbers got miscalculated. 🤦‍♂️ how can you put a price on peace of mind, right?

I feel so sorry for Derek Ritchie. He didn't even get an explanation for the mistake which just adds insult to injury. I guess he has no choice but to consider going back to work full-time... 😬 that's a nightmare come true for anyone who thought they were done with their working life. 🤕 it's like, what's the point of having a pension if you're just gonna have to pay it all back? 💸
 
🤦‍♂️ I think it's pretty harsh that someone like Derek Ritchie is being forced to pay back £25k just because of a mistake made by the company managing his pension scheme. He's already 63, and now he has to consider going back to work full-time? That's a bit ridiculous, if you ask me 😒. The fact that he didn't even get an explanation for the error is just cherry-picking on the part of the company. I mean, what kind of pension scheme can't even be bothered to give its members a heads up about their own mistake? 🤷‍♂️
 
this is such a messed up situation 🤯, like what even is £25k? that's not exactly chump change for anyone trying to retire comfortably after decades of service to the country. and then you gotta consider the principle of it all - how could they let this happen in the first place? i mean, we're talking about people who have dedicated their lives to serving others, and now they're being forced back into a life of work just because of some bureaucratic mistake 🤔. and the fact that capita is claiming expertise and innovation but ritchie isn't buying it is fair enough. this whole thing stinks of incompetence on a massive scale 👎
 
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Ugh I feel so bad for this guy 🤕 He's been through so much just because of a £25k mistake... that's mental! How can you live with the knowledge that you're going to have to work full-time again after 11 years of retirement? 😩 And it's not like he had any idea it was wrong, just got told in March that his payments were all messed up. The system is so broken and I just don't get why they can't just sort it out once and for all. 🤯
 
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