RetireJapan

No lifetime limits would be a very welcome upgrade! No Ideco lifetime limits are there? They could also a bit more generous, 68,000 yen a month hardly anything to write home about. I think the personal pension limit in the UK is 40,000 pounds a year. Most independent contractors cannot get close to...

RetireJapan wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:26 pm No lifetime limits would be a very welcome upgrade!

No Ideco lifetime limits are there? They could also a bit more generous, 68,000 yen a month hardly anything to write home about. I think the personal pension limit in the UK is 40,000 pounds a year.

...However, I have never had a company that has been at fault and refused to give a refund. Sorry, but I don't think apple is at fault for your account getting hacked. Were you using an apple-generated password? LastPass, or something like that? Have you ever tried a password checker? I think my pa...

Would I stand better chance with a refund with the credit card company, do you reckon? Well if Apple are telling you to go that route, I would give it a try. In my experience Japanese credit card companies are a bit stricter on chargebacks than some CC companies overseas, but it is definitely worth...

I get in contact with Apple immediately, they said it was a Japanese hacker. They instruct us to ask for a refund. To my utter surprise they turned me down for a refund. I apply again asking for a reason, it is supposed 'policy' they then said I should go to my bank or credit card company. I take t...

I pay 400 yen a month through my credit card for cloud storage. In late December my apple account was hacked, and the hacker started draining my credit card 10,000 yen daily. At this time, I did not receive any notifications about unusual activity. I received my paper credit card bill in early Febru...

I am not sure about everyone, but early retirement for me would definitely involve keeping the grey cells active, and I can very easily see myself teaching at my current university part-time, very much because I want to work and not because I have to. It is very interesting to observe all the over 6...

You only need to pay 35 years for a full UK state pension.

The number was the +44 191 203 7010 one. I was actually talking to a real live person within 5 minutes that time! I was so shocked I went completely blank and started gabbling about something or other before my brain reconnected. i have called a number of times and the usual waiting time is around ...

I paid some 10+ years worth of voluntary class 2 contributions a few months back. Of course no update in my government gateway account despite the 8 week deadline for the account to be updated having long since passed. I’m not really worried however - I have total faith in the UK government being u...