heating allowance

[alan47]

can anyone tell me why the cut off date for heating allowance payment is the 22nd of september. my 60th birthday is the 3rd of october...10 days later so I dont get it. although I have to go through the same winter as every other 60 plus person. why no sliding scale.
tia

[Bewlay Bros]

There has to be a cut off date somewhere. If it was in JUne then people whose birthday fall in July would moan. That's just the way it is.

What I do know is September has a higher percentage of retirements due to to Graduate schemes starting in September, so perhaps that is why. Also it is the start of autumn so the colder nights are drawing in.

Also, and probably the main reason why there is no sliding scale is merely a matter of saving money. We are talking about the same government who have introduced over 35 stealth taxes, tax the dea, increased NHS payments, cut pensions, stopped MIRAS, put petrol up to a world time high. Need I go on?

[raysparx1]

As bewley says got to a cut off point, same as when you leave primary school, my birthday is even nearer to it, but sod all you can do about it.

[Bewlay Bros]

And I have a policeman friend who joined in August 1994. If he joined just two weeks earlier, YES TWO WEEKS, he would have been on the old police housing allowance worth about 400 per month now. A sum of which he will get til he retires.

[cuzzy]

i was 60 november so i never got it either. my cousin was 60 the day after the cut off date but like Bewley Bros said it as to be somewhere

[alan47]

OK I take all the points on board, although I still disagree. There should be a sliding scale. In this age of technology, how difficult is it to divide by 365 and credit by, in my case 355.