Winter Fuel Allowance payments scrapped for millions of pensioners.

[Slighty batty]

14 minutes ago, echo beach said:

On that same basis Slightly, pensioners who are more likely to be at home more all the time and subsequently have their heating on more should be able to pay a lower tariff.

It’s ironic that when you retire your income decreases and your outgoings often increase.

 

echo.

Yes, I agree. My partner's parents (elderly and frail) got the special tariff which was a godsend because even with the thermostat set at 25C his dad was still always cold. 

[High Chaparral]

2 minutes ago, HeHasRisen said:

Why? 

 

Why are people labouring under some kind of misaphrension that all pensioners are skint? 

 

27% of pensioners are millionaires ffs. 

 

What about young people who are skint and need to put the heating on, should they get to pay less too? 

Most of that 27% are only millionaires because of the value of their homes.  

 

It's a poor choice for the new government to remove winter fuel allowance for all pensioners.  Salt is rubbed into many pensioners wounds by the new government choosing to give an Indian owned steel company £500 million and to give the Ukraine another £600 million.

[HeHasRisen]

Just now, High Chaparral said:

 

 

It's a poor choice for the new government to remove winter fuel allowance for all pensioners.  

They aren't.

[geared]

4 minutes ago, Slighty batty said:

Yes, I agree. My partner's parents (elderly and frail) got the special tariff which was a godsend because even with the thermostat set at 25C his dad was still always cold. 

 

Why should the rest of us have to chip in because someone wants to live inside a terrarium?

 

The boiler must be going like the clappers to keep a house at 25 degrees, the gas bill must get delivered on the back of a low loader.

Edited September 12 by geared

[Slighty batty]

29 minutes ago, HeHasRisen said:

You need to look at a switch to Utilita, the standing charge is spread on the first two units used each day, rather than being charged by default.

The cottage is in France. It was just a general point, that abolishing standing charges would help second home owners, who aren’t the ones who need helping. 

[HeHasRisen]

1 minute ago, Slighty batty said:

The cottage is in France. It was just a general point, that abolishing standing charges would help second home owners, who aren’t the ones who need helping. 

To be fair the second home owners are hardly the ones on the edge of poverty as they have a second home, but you acknowledge that. Didnt know the location of the cottage, was trying to assist.

Edited September 12 by HeHasRisen

[Slighty batty]

2 minutes ago, geared said:

 

Why should the rest of us have to chip in because someone wants to live inside a terrarium?

 

The boiler must be going like the clappers to keep a house at 25 degrees, the gas bill must get delivered on the back of a low loader.

This was a 92 year old war hero, unable to get out of his seat without help, all skin and bones, with a heart condition and taking blood thinners. His hands were like ice. Some people really do feel the cold. 

[Prettytom]

6 minutes ago, Slighty batty said:

This was a 92 year old war hero, unable to get out of his seat without help, all skin and bones, with a heart condition and taking blood thinners. His hands were like ice. Some people really do feel the cold. 

In that sort of case, surely it is better to heat the person, rather than a whole house. I’m not being unsympathetic here, but try a heated blanket rather than cranking up the thermostat quite so far.

[crookesey]

Watch out Child Allowance, Rachel Thieves is rubbing her hands, 😉

[Prettytom]

Just now, crookesey said:

Watch out Child Allowance, Rachel Thieves is rubbing her hands, 😉

That should be next, absolutely definitely.

 

Another huge waste of taxpayers money.