Absolute twaddle, when I bought my home 'for a few grand' my salary, believe it or not, was equally as low, I was paying around 16% interest on my mortgage and coping with double figure inflation and double figure unemployment, if the Government give me a 10% increase on my state pension that will be less than £800 per year, whoopee, that'll be bingo time for me won't it? maybe I'll go off abroad on holiday, something I couldn't afford when paying my mortgage or buy a new car, something I couldn't afford when paying my mortgage, maybe they'll give rail staff an £800 per year increase to keep up with us cash rich pensioners then, does that sound good? As you've mentioned covid should I in turn mention that many of the supermarket staff etc that I came across were of pension age who were keeping shops open not staying 'safely at home'