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 Member Benefits
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You should all have received
a letter from the Trustees, and that letter included a mention of Club
Together, which is a general discount offering from Xafinity, our
pension administrators.
Club Together has been
operating for some time, and is used by a whole range of pension
schemes in the UK – the EDS folks were introduced to it a little while
ago. The whole rationale is that the more people sign up and use it,
the better the deals get. We met with the chap that runs it, and one
particular deal stands out immediately – there is a good value travel
insurance offering which is very popular -we think it is well worth
signing up and checking . You can link to Club
Together from our website, or simply click here
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Pension Increases
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We have received quite a bit of mail, resulting from our piece
on our correspondence with HP in the USA, and several people have asked
how the pension review process works, for those with discretionary
pensions.
Every December, and 2011 will be no different, the Trustees
recommend an increase based on a whole set of factors, the main one
being inflation and its effect on pensioners’ purchasing power.
Every January, HP UK has a review of discretionary pensions and
makes a decision about whether to recommend an increase to HP Corporate.
HP Corporate then take a view on whether an increase should be paid, or
not. So far we have not been able to find out anything more than that
about the process, and we do not know whether HP UK is recommending any
increases.
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Annual Retiree Briefing
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As mentioned last time, the HP UK/HPPA Briefing will be held on
January 11th2012, at Shinfield Parish Hall, Shinfield School
Green, Shinfield, RG2 9EH at 7.45pm for
8pm. The evening will include a message from HP CEO Meg Whitman, a
UK business update, and Jonathan Lord Chairman of the Pension Trustees
will be present.
Light refreshments will be provided, HP freebee bag and a raffle for a
Touch Screen PC.
Please click the link below to register for the event.
Click here to Register
If you would like ask any questions of the
trustees (even if you are unable to attend) please email them to info@hppa.org.uk
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Membership Appeal
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We are still growing at about 7 members a week, but we would like you
all to push, to increase that significantly. Bluntly, the more members
we have, the more effective we can be, and we now have some member
benefits that are not on general offer anywhere else.
So, we would like you to spread the word throughout your
contacts and ask them to sign up at www.hppa.org.uk .
We really do mean it, the bigger we are, the more effective we will be.
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And Finally
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If you want to change your
email address, please look at the bottom of any mail from us, and you
will see a link to "unsubscribe and manage" - change your
address using that link, rather than email one of us!
Once again, all feedback to steve.spillane@hppa.org.uk
or ian.young@hppa.org.uk
Best Regards,
HP Pension
Association
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IN THIS ISSUE
- Member Benefits
- Pension Increases
- Annual Retiree Briefing
- HP Printers
- And Finally
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HP Printers
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Great range of HP Printers
available to buy from the HP Employee Purchase Program store, details
at www.hppa.org.uk
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CONTACT DETAILS
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The username for www.hppa.org.uk
is hpway and the password
is toplay These can also be used on the US website.
HP Pension Association
info@hppa.org.uk
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JOKE
Jesus and Satan were having an ongoing
argument about who was better on his computer. They had been going at
it for days, and God was tired of hearing all of the bickering.
Finally God said, "Cool it. I am
going to set up a test that will run two hours and I will judge who
does the better job."
So, Satan and Jesus sat at
the keyboards and typed away. They moused,
They did spreadsheets, They wrote reports.
They sent faxes. They sent e-mail, They sent out e-mail with
attachments. They did every known job
But ten minutes before
their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder
rolled, the rain poured and, of course, the electricity went off.
Satan stared at his blank
screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld. Jesus
just sighed.
The electricity finally
flickered back on, and each of them restarted their computers. Satan
started searching frantically, screaming "It's gone! It's all
gone! I lost everything when the power went out!"
Meanwhile, Jesus quietly
started printing out all of his files from the past two hours. Satan
observed this and became irate. "Wait! He cheated, how did he do
it?"
God shrugged and said,
"Jesus saves."
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