The winter fuel payment for pensioners is being shelved. I don’t need it but I know others who are not on benefits and rely on that payment to help them during the winter.
Not entirely true, poorer pensioners will still receive the payments, it's the better off ones who don't need it who will see it scrapped. This has come about because Hunt lied about the state of the financial situation and things are far worse than expected.
Hopefully they will do the same thing with the bus passes next.
Give me the child until they are 7 and I will give you the bigender: Aristotle 1984-2022
Sadly there will be many pensioners who will really miss this cash injection
The only people who will get it are those on pension credits but there will be many who get a fraction above the pension credit cut off point who will also miss out
That pension credit cut off point is neither fair or realistic IMO
I have always though it should have been means tested as there will have been many quite wealthy people pocketing this amount and putting it to their winter cruise or holiday home in France costs
The whole way it’s been administered has been out of order for years
Tbh it was coming in through the back door anyway what with the pensionable age gradually creeping up and up, thus fewer and fewer being able to claim an allowance.
Give me the child until they are 7 and I will give you the bigender: Aristotle 1984-2022
Maybe Sunak was a prophet when, during a pre-election debate, he mentioned a £2000 a year tax increase to plug the deficit or else he knew what a mess the Tories were leaving behind.
Maybe Sunak was a prophet when, during a pre-election debate, he mentioned a £2000 a year tax increase to plug the deficit or else he knew what a mess the Tories were leaving behind.
Of course he knew it, and Hunt chose to lie about exactly how bad it was. The Tories knew their time was up, they had no answers and I doubt they wanted to return to power. That way they could blame Labour for the inevitable tax rises.
Don't forget things always get rough when a new govt comes in, or even when an old one returns. Then with 18 months to go, they turn nice and everything looks rosy. Except this time it didn't turn nice because the corrupt shysters had lied and cheated once too often and left more of a mess than they could deal with. And so instead of fighting the election, they bottled it and left it for someone else to fix. The Tories have been utterly spineless and they were rightly removed from power.
Give me the child until they are 7 and I will give you the bigender: Aristotle 1984-2022