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I'd Forgotten How Nasty The Lefties Are.....
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We can afford to give £11.6bn to foriegners for "climate change" yet 10million pensioners must freeze. Nice one Robber Reeves! They always used to say the Tories were the nasty party!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.My issue isn't that they're taking away the payment (although (if I understand correctly) those on more than £11k will no longer get it - this is a tiny income, so why can't they peg it at, say, £30k) my issue is the breathtaking hypocrisy of SKS who stood up in Parliament and had a go at Sunak who he accused of considering taking the payment away.
I can't think of a new Govenment ever being as incompetent as these clowns in their first 6 weeks.
ynnafymmi, "like the SNP sending money out to the Palestinian terrorists?"
'On the Scottish funding, the agency wrote: "Scottish funding within the UNRWA appeal has been used to contribute towards supporting lifesaving activities targeting vulnerable groups (children, women, and elderly) with protection and emergency hygiene needs."'
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O_G Yes, our pensions are still miserably low compared to most European countries. We knew a chap who had done 1 year Nat. Service in France - he got an extra pension for it. OH served 2 yrs. in UK Nat. Service - zilch; he even had to buy his own veteran's badge.
If you earn a pound a week over the Benefit limit, you'd have £52 a year more than someone who (if o. 80) gets £300 heating allowance.
Charities are already screaming that they will suffer because so many people who don't need it, won't be donating it. Also if people are struggling- they will also cut back sharply on their donations.
Even with a sliding scale such as reducing benefit by a fixed amount per £X above a certain amount, as with pension credit there will always be those whose income wipes out entitlement.
With pension credit, if you have more than £10,000 in savings, every £500 over that amount counts as £1 income a week.
Someone with £15,000 would be treated as having £10 per week as income, on top of their pension, for example and that could mean no entitlement to the pension credit.
There have to be qualifying conditions for means-tested benefits whether by age or income and regardless of whether it's a fixed rate or a sliding scale, there will always be folk who "only just" miss out.
If there were no qualifying conditions, every benefit would be payable to every individual.
//“A millionaire I know has a tradition every year: he buys a bottle of vintage wine with his winter fuel payment and invites friends to drink it."//
Red herring.
99% of the pensioners who'll lose the WFA are not millionaires. Many will have incomes of maybe £12000-15000 pa- and have probably never seen or tasted a vintage wine
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