Winter Fuel Allowance payments scrapped for millions of pensioners.

[despritdan]

5 hours ago, El Cid said:

 

Are you female or disabled?

No.

[despritdan]

3 hours ago, hackey lad said:

Ask El Cid . Apparently one in five are millionaires. 

I know a lot more than 5 pensioners and none of them are millionaires.

[Baron99]

So that's why Starmer was reticent about producing impact assessment details about the possible health impact, hospitalisations & deaths during the Winter period due to cutting the pensioners Winter fuel payments. 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/12/no-winter-fuel-payments-impact-assessment-was-carried-out-no-10-admits

 

Starmer / Labour simply didn't bother to carry out any assessments. 

 

Pensions of the UK. Starmer / Labour simply don't care about you! 

[crookesey]

The outside temperature is 10C this morning, so the heating is on.  We will turn it off as and when it warms up, so whet is wrong with that?

[crisispoint]

The outside temperature here is 3.3°C on the east side of the house it was 2.4 at 5:00am.

[Annie Bynnol]

   The Brexit Party(trading as Reform UK in elections) is a bit vague on this is because its majority shareholder -Farage- favours an end the State Pension for all employed people who will rely instead on a personal Fund related to a life time Compulsory levy of  12% collected by employers as well as the private investments they make.

   A minimum means tested welfare benefit would apply to non/limited income when they reached a certain age.

 

   Compulsory contribution of 12% of all  pay except O/T, goes into a Fund, the value of which dictates the Pension you take out.

   No flat rate stage State Pension.

   Means tested benefits would apply to those with  insufficient contributions. 

   

[crisispoint]

I tend to agree with this position from reform

[El Cid]

2 hours ago, crookesey said:

The outside temperature is 10C this morning, so the heating is on.  We will turn it off as and when it warms up, so whet is wrong with that?

 

That is fine if you are paying for it. My heating is still off.

[El Cid]

2 hours ago, Annie Bynnol said:

   The Brexit Party(trading as Reform UK in elections) is a bit vague on this is because its majority shareholder -Farage- favours an end the State Pension for all employed people who will rely instead on a personal Fund related to a life time Compulsory levy of  12% collected by employers as well as the private investments they make.

   A minimum means tested welfare benefit would apply to non/limited income when they reached a certain age.

 

   Compulsory contribution of 12% of all  pay except O/T, goes into a Fund, the value of which dictates the Pension you take out.

   No flat rate stage State Pension.

   Means tested benefits would apply to those with  insufficient contributions.

 

   

 

We have means tests for extra benefits already, so similar, it depends on the amount paid out.

Is 12% of pay enough, NHS etc its 6% from the employee and 16% from the employer.

[Annie Bynnol]

2 hours ago, crisispoint said:

I tend to agree with this position from reform

     What position?

     The Brexit Party(trading as Reform UK in elections) did not mention in its Manifesto or on any of its Policies. As owner of Reform UK, we have to wait for Farage to say something.