Im state pensioner who lives alone with my little dog companion.I dont drink,smoke or live in any sort of luxury.Started my first job at 14 years old and am now 68 .I have OsteoArthritis in various joints ad the cold affects this.I get thr full State Pension and missed out by £3.42p in Pension Credit.I now have to pay for my dental and eye treatment etc.Wasnt entitiled to the cost of living payments and now the only extra help i had to look forward to was the winter fuel allowance. I only leave my home to take my dog a little walk most days if able to.There is definitely a great injustice in the whole pensiion system. It neeeds revised and sorted.
Kick Rachel Reeves out of the parliament . She is a threat to the pensioners. Her policies on pensions are fatal . Pray let's see the end of her power.
But they can pay 8 million pounds a week for illegal immigrants but can’t pay the winter fuel allowance for the pension is that right and spending all this net zero rubbish is a waste of money
Crazy All those poor pensioners, paid into a system their whole life..only to walk past a nice warm hotel in the winter full of illegals Ah, labour - for the few, not the many
If you're on the new pension which i am you can't claim pension credit as i am a couple of pounds over the limit. Last winter my bill was a thousand pounds, with the prices going up. I try to cut down but me and my husband are both disabled so we need to keep warm. Last year the government gave us 500 pounds in total to help with the bills which was very gratefully received. This year i don't know what we are going to do. We'll have to freeze and starve to death. At least that'll help the government out they won't have to pay our pensions out for which i have worked forty years for but the illegal immigrants will be ok in their nice warm hotels with plenty to eat, who haven't contributed a thing to this country
Wendy uk We spend millions on illegal immigrants but are going to take some much needed help for high energy bills off certain pensioners.Shame on the labour party.
@Wendy-ir4np Thank Boris, Truss Tory budget, PPE scandal, pandering to dodgy donors and Sunak not vetting immigrants swiftly enough for the state of the economy, not a brand new Government. And playing the OAP card is old hat now. Nothing personal, and politics apart, have a lovely week, Wendy.
At least two ministers assured everyone that this benefit was not being considered for attention. Then immediately scrap it. The word of any Labour minister cannot be believed. They have applied their own damage.
@@sheeliewoo Respectfully, may I point out, you are clearly not an OAP and are unaware of the very low level of the UK state pension. Just look at what pensioners get in France and Germany. Appalling treatment by Reeves. It will backfire.
Pensioners hate claiming benefits. They feel ashamed to ask for financial help. It’s how they were brought up. There are more pensioners entitled to benefits that don’t claim them than do.
Yes they should, there is a misconception that all pensioners are wealthy, I can assure you that I am not. Stop picking on the old and vulnerable and go after the tax dodgers like energy companies, tech companies and the like. The elderly are an easy target or is it that Labour are in the pockets of big business just like the tories. ☹️
The chancellor said there is a big hole of 22 billion, so why o why is she given 84 million to Africa and 22 million to Graza and 117 million to the police, why looking for the black hole did she find a money tree also because she seems to throwing money about like it’s going out of fashion.
What rankles the most is that this plan was ready to be put into effect before Labour came to power whilst it schemed and plotted to make it all the Tories fault if it was challenged. What is anger making was Reeve's venom when called upon to voice her plan. I couldn't believe the unnecessary aggression in her voice and I can only suppose that was because she knows how evil the act is. She is one nasty lady and I use the word 'lady' very loosely indeed. She is not a person for turning. One can determine that quite easily. Her own perception of her 'strengths' is going to be measured by her ability to bully and enjoy schadenfreude, though why she feels the need for pleasure from punishing the most vulnerable in society, I have no idea. She's either in denial or total ignorance of how most pensioners still have to live. Middle class blinkered. Thankfully it wasn't ME who put any cross on a Labour candidate's ballot paper. And yet.... there hasn't been any great outpouring of disgust from any Party. I'm horrified to have heard only silence from the Lib Dems for whom I did vote. Ed Davey is probably going to be far too busy trying to resurrect some kind of financial help for social care. Any protests have been weak and mealy mouthed but have never been more needed than for old people with weak voices. So I no longer have an opinion on whether this is broadly fair or unfair, nor its rightness or wrongness. Because I'm just numb, and hoping life doesn't go on too much longer for me. I've tried to let things settle in my mind, and tell myself I'll get by without the winter fuel payment but I can't, because I won't. I feel hopeless and completely defeated as well as betrayed. I wish this woman in Hades and I'm sure if there is any justice through karma, she'll get her tranche of that at some point in her future.
This government just gets worse. This poor country is being decimated and so is it people. Mind you some of the newcomers are doing nicely. Double standards again.
Yes I need my winter heating money😊 I look after my with lung disease and heart disease I lot my home and now live in a over 60 home not the best at all and this government want to destroy people like me I had very hard financially demanding jobs all my life not be treated well and need my teeth fixed and that will cost 2000 pounds I eating with 3 teeth because I do not know how to pay for my teeth to be fixed I can not take another job I have to look after my wife now I have depression the demand of paying the bills and we going in to winter we lot our winter payment
The government is opting for a 2 tier pension. Those on pension tax credit get the winter fuel payment; those not on pension tax credit, don't get it. All, or none, in my opinion.🤔
the fact that Labour also are going to give so much money via the foreign aid budget seems not to get mentioned and 10 billion of the black hole was via choices
It’s not a very good look is it? It’s like a punishment to the pensioners because they are an easy target. Even if you means test it how many pensioners would own up to needing it?
A Pension is not a benefit it is earned after working and paying Tax and National Insurance all there working life.And some have worked 50 plus years so NO IT IS NOT A BENEFIT.This Goverment would tax you for breathing if they could get away with it remember all who voted Labour you have tax rises for a minimum of 5 years!!!!!!
@@Fabbydabby1 its being suggested that people with £30,000 of private pension wont get the state pension, and if they go for assets as well most wont get one because their houses will be paid for. I feel I have been lied to, i wont get antrhing, or millions of others that have paid into the system but people who have never worked will reap the rewards. I work in a supermarket I am not rich. The government made us all pay into a privare pension to top up our state pension. I only have 5 years left though I have to do two extra years. I wanted to retire at 65 im partialy sighted hard of hearing and have joint and back pain i do a full time manal job since 1979. Now I cant even top up my private pension enough theres no time. Not that i could have over the years with austerity and now the cost of living. Robert Maxwell has nothing on the lying government! And yes we are angry it should never have been done like this people should have paid into their own pensions and anyone at that point who didnot have enough time to get one should of been given benefits if they did not have enough, this problem would not have been here today if they had been responsible with our money. Mind you a life time fixed Isa would of been better, try ad get any money out early from your private pension and your taxed so heavily that you lose most of it. As pebsion age goes up and up we wont be able to retire this way at all.
They better do or they are in for a rough ride all the things they said they wouldn't do and then do the complete opposite that finally tells me that they haven't got a clue the country is not going to stand for this shenanigans I am pleased but worried for the pensioners I didn't vote for this shower no confidence in them whatsoever we are running on a shoe string and it's about to snap great Christ what a mess.
They need to sort out the 2 tier state pension. If you are on the old state pension you are lagging behind all those on the new state pension. Its not right. MPs should not be ableto claim all their livibg costs
So Jeans retirement income is thr state pension + the equivalent of half the salary of her husbands full time job? Am i missing something? Why would she see it as an issue. Many of us can only dream of retiring with half our salary plus state pension.
He may have paid a high proportion of his wage on a private pension, some people were anticipating problems ahead. It's a personal choice, and it will be taxed. I'm seventy, so not anti pensioner.
Not a u turn,but a proper means test.get to a figure then remove the winter fuel payment's from those above that number.not all pensioners are poor and not all are wealthy.need to find a common ground.its another government handout that was never handled properly to begin with.
Labour did not say they would increase the Income Tax Threshold for Pensioners if the Increase in the State Pension takes them over the Personal Allowance unlike the Conservatives would have done. If the Government stopped sending British Tax payers money to Ukraine and Israel then the money could be kept in our country and spent on Pensioners Fuel Allowance. If Robber Reeves gets away with this the next thing that will happen is she will abolish the State Pension for all but the very poorest.
Rich people have paid more tax & Ni so are more than entitled to it . If you work hard for 50 years & save for retirement you have a better life than someone who blew all his money & thats right & proper.
Why is no one talking about the payment being given it who live abroad who don’t contribute by what they purchase from vat etc. and the old today were also paying old depts accrued from previous generations .
One in four are millionaires? I know a lot of pensioners and I don't know any millionaires. The value of your house does not count. I am a working pensioner and I still use my winter fuel allowance for its proper purpose. Rich pensioners can always donate it to charity if they want to. And what will they attack next? Get rid of that ghastly woman ASAP
Damb right they should especially when now we pensioners have found out that they get 4500£ for their heating if we lose it then so should they what makes them any different from us we tell the truth they are experts at telling lies.
I read minimum pension 14400 for retirement. If you don't have a separate work or private pension. It's 11500 , cuts you off from a lot of help as you don't qualify for pension credit. That's below the 250 a week officially poor figure for the UK
Three points: firstly, it is the older people who vote so stuffed up their own field; secondly, wealthy pensioners will give back the winter fuel payment within their taxation; lastly, it is so much cheaper and easier to utilise universal benefits and costly to means test.
My deceased husband had a small private pension . I am allowed half of it, this puts me in the tax bracket and stops me from claiming any help. I would have been better off if my husband hadn’t got a private pension.
To be honest - as a pensioner since 2011 - l don’t need the fuel allowance and have benefitted from the triple lock increases while many working folk have had low or no increases. I fully agree that ALL low income retired people should get the benefit but a large number of pensioners have a decent income and have not suffered from mortgage increases as most own their homes outright. It is simple - benefits are for those in need so means test it like other benefits.
All the people who were still working and got paid covid money shud pay it back. The pensioners didn't steal off the government. Pensioners didn't get covid money.
You need to link this in with the massive rises in energy due to net zero over the next few years. Already 77% will be the new increase due to new windfarms operating at far higher levels in order to make a profit. Plus containment charges at night and very windy days.
Define wealthy, most pensioners have saved money all their working life and now are paying pay tax when they spend it and that will not last forever, it’s not an endless pot of money. I have worked very hard over my 40 odd years service and deserve better in my last years of life, now with liver cancer.
This is the hardest decision our Chancellor has had to make, what a load of rubbish, all of those wealth people who had their taxes reduced twice during the Tories Austerity measures, why not reverse that and then increase their taxes, my hardest decision was to vote for the Labour Party, something I did only because I was afraid of a Reform Party win, well as a disabled pensioner who who spends so much of my money on gas and electricity, mostly because I'm very ill and disabled, please someone bring back sanity and Jeremy Corbyn into the Labour Party,all is forgiven Jeremy help us fight these bastards, I will be voting for the Green Party unless Jeremy Corbyn want to start a new Democratic Socailist Labour Party.
OAPs will not be going out to work so need to heat their homes more in the Winter. Consequently they have higher energy bills. When costs go up as they will many willbe in financial. horror to stay warm. This is an example of a govmt just wanting to reduce costs by placing old people on the critical list.
Yes they should, but if not they should means test child benefit as well....The logic of means testing applies equally to that benefit which millionaires and wealthy politicians can all claim....
You would agree that if this Government take away their fuel payment then labour will only have one turn of office, in addition to this is because I work my husband that don’t work cant receive this payment because he cant work any more . Take the big water Compnay, and alike. This Government are curl.
They are going to steal from the pensioners when they claim £3,500 fuel allowance don't you love the labour government. DO AS I SAY NOT DO AS I DO. CLEARLY HATES PEOPLE WHO THEY THINK ARE DRAINING THE SYSTEM BUT FINE FOR THE POOR COUNTRIES TO TAKE OUR MONEY IN FOREIGN AID ??????
I am disabled pensioner with an illness that my body has limited ability. I don't get pension credit as above the limit. I will become ill. I paid National insurance and graduated pension nobody is explaining why I am suffering now I am 69.
Means testing is fair but only after the Govt has Stop's making Charity funding to other countries like India with its space program or Afghanistan with its self inflicted issues. We need to put our country First until our debts are paid and the homeless are housed and the illegal immigrants have returned to where they came from.
Im state pensioner who lives alone with my little dog companion.I dont drink,smoke or live in any sort of luxury.Started my first job at 14 years old and am now 68 .I have OsteoArthritis in various joints ad the cold affects this.I get thr full State Pension and missed out by £3.42p in Pension Credit.I now have to pay for my dental and eye treatment etc.Wasnt entitiled to the cost of living payments and now the only extra help i had to look forward to was the winter fuel allowance. I only leave my home to take my dog a little walk most days if able to.There is definitely a great injustice in the whole pensiion system. It neeeds revised and sorted.
Kick Rachel Reeves out of the parliament . She is a threat to the pensioners. Her policies on pensions are fatal . Pray let's see the end of her power.
How about the politicians waving their 3.5k fuel allowance? Won't see them do that!!!
They can’t do that, they need it they are hard up. Even though most are millionaires
Never happen, don't forget they got an extra 10 grand for wfh during the flu episode.
It's a disgrace, should show solidarity and not accept it.
3500 be a very nice holiday 🤔🤔🤦
But they can pay 8 million pounds a week for illegal immigrants but can’t pay the winter fuel allowance for the pension is that right and spending all this net zero rubbish is a waste of money
Crazy
All those poor pensioners, paid into a system their whole life..only to walk past a nice warm hotel in the winter full of illegals
Ah, labour - for the few, not the many
and that is nothing to the amount of money that is being sent to Ukraine in weaponry - it is all a choice
If you're on the new pension which i am you can't claim pension credit as i am a couple of pounds over the limit. Last winter my bill was a thousand pounds, with the prices going up. I try to cut down but me and my husband are both disabled so we need to keep warm. Last year the government gave us 500 pounds in total to help with the bills which was very gratefully received. This year i don't know what we are going to do. We'll have to freeze and starve to death. At least that'll help the government out they won't have to pay our pensions out for which i have worked forty years for but the illegal immigrants will be ok in their nice warm hotels with plenty to eat, who haven't contributed a thing to this country
Wendy uk
We spend millions on illegal immigrants but are going to take some much needed help for high energy bills off certain pensioners.Shame on the labour party.
@Wendy-ir4np Thank Boris, Truss Tory budget, PPE scandal, pandering to dodgy donors and Sunak not vetting immigrants swiftly enough for the state of the economy, not a brand new Government. And playing the OAP card is old hat now.
Nothing personal, and politics apart, have a lovely week, Wendy.
Yes they should do a u turn it’s disgusting that they are after the old age pensions
It's always the hard working people that have put in the time with hard graft and paid their dues that have take a smacking time and time again.
She needs to resign immediately
At least two ministers assured everyone that this benefit was not being considered for attention. Then immediately scrap it. The word of any Labour minister cannot be believed. They have applied their own damage.
Thats what they are doing. Pensioners who dont need it wont get it..
To penalise the very poorest in society yet others get free absolutely everything and are completely immune.
The very poorest will get it though, so i dont get your point.. 😊
@@sheeliewoo Respectfully, may I point out, you are clearly not an OAP and are unaware of the very low level of the UK state pension. Just look at what pensioners get in France and Germany. Appalling treatment by Reeves. It will backfire.
Pensioners hate claiming benefits. They feel ashamed to ask for financial help. It’s how they were brought up. There are more pensioners entitled to benefits that don’t claim them than do.
Yes they should, there is a misconception that all pensioners are wealthy, I can assure you that I am not. Stop picking on the old and vulnerable and go after the tax dodgers like energy companies, tech companies and the like. The elderly are an easy target or is it that Labour are in the pockets of big business just like the tories. ☹️
Why can’t they use the tax bands like they did for the family allowance. Take it from anyone who pay 40% or higher tax.
I take it Rachel Reeves will be donating her £3,400 to a charity that she gets for her heating her home(s)?? And making that donation public 😡!!!!
There will be no chance of that. They claim everything going wether the need it or not. Rachel Reeves is two faced
The chancellor said there is a big hole of 22 billion, so why o why is she given 84 million to Africa and 22 million to Graza and 117 million to the police, why looking for the black hole did she find a money tree also because she seems to throwing money about like it’s going out of fashion.
Don't forget millband giving 9 billon to Africa to help with climate change.
Labour the nasty party
Jeremy Vine needs to keep bringing this topic up. I find it absolutely appalling we are not looking after all elderly in this country.
What rankles the most is that this plan was ready to be put into effect before Labour came to power whilst it schemed and plotted to make it all the Tories fault if it was challenged. What is anger making was Reeve's venom when called upon to voice her plan. I couldn't believe the unnecessary aggression in her voice and I can only suppose that was because she knows how evil the act is. She is one nasty lady and I use the word 'lady' very loosely indeed. She is not a person for turning. One can determine that quite easily. Her own perception of her 'strengths' is going to be measured by her ability to bully and enjoy schadenfreude, though why she feels the need for pleasure from punishing the most vulnerable in society, I have no idea. She's either in denial or total ignorance of how most pensioners still have to live. Middle class blinkered. Thankfully it wasn't ME who put any cross on a Labour candidate's ballot paper. And yet.... there hasn't been any great outpouring of disgust from any Party. I'm horrified to have heard only silence from the Lib Dems for whom I did vote. Ed Davey is probably going to be far too busy trying to resurrect some kind of financial help for social care. Any protests have been weak and mealy mouthed but have never been more needed than for old people with weak voices. So I no longer have an opinion on whether this is broadly fair or unfair, nor its rightness or wrongness. Because I'm just numb, and hoping life doesn't go on too much longer for me. I've tried to let things settle in my mind, and tell myself I'll get by without the winter fuel payment but I can't, because I won't. I feel hopeless and completely defeated as well as betrayed. I wish this woman in Hades and I'm sure if there is any justice through karma, she'll get her tranche of that at some point in her future.
Leave us a lone and sort out the people who dont need the help not the pensioners who need it and have worked all their lives
This government just gets worse. This poor country is being decimated and so is it people. Mind you some of the newcomers are doing nicely. Double standards again.
Yes I need my winter heating money😊 I look after my with lung disease and heart disease I lot my home and now live in a over 60 home not the best at all and this government want to destroy people like me I had very hard financially demanding jobs all my life not be treated well and need my teeth fixed and that will cost 2000 pounds I eating with 3 teeth because I do not know how to pay for my teeth to be fixed I can not take another job I have to look after my wife now I have depression the demand of paying the bills and we going in to winter we lot our winter payment
The government is opting for a 2 tier pension. Those on pension tax credit get the winter fuel payment; those not on pension tax credit, don't get it. All, or none, in my opinion.🤔
It won’t be long before the state pensions is above the frozen personal tax allowance.
the fact that Labour also are going to give so much money via the foreign aid budget seems not to get mentioned and 10 billion of the black hole was via choices
It’s not a very good look is it? It’s like a punishment to the pensioners because they are an easy target. Even if you means test it how many pensioners would own up to needing it?
Keir Starmers pension is protected from taxation by an act of parliament.
An act of parliament for one man.
A Pension is not a benefit it is earned after working and paying Tax and National Insurance all there working life.And some have worked 50 plus years so NO IT IS NOT A BENEFIT.This Goverment would tax you for breathing if they could get away with it remember all who voted Labour you have tax rises for a minimum of 5 years!!!!!!
They wont do a U turn because they plan to take our whole pension soon
And where did you hear that?
@@Fabbydabby1 its being suggested that people with £30,000 of private pension wont get the state pension, and if they go for assets as well most wont get one because their houses will be paid for. I feel I have been lied to, i wont get antrhing, or millions of others that have paid into the system but people who have never worked will reap the rewards. I work in a supermarket I am not rich. The government made us all pay into a privare pension to top up our state pension. I only have 5 years left though I have to do two extra years. I wanted to retire at 65 im partialy sighted hard of hearing and have joint and back pain i do a full time manal job since 1979. Now I cant even top up my private pension enough theres no time. Not that i could have over the years with austerity and now the cost of living. Robert Maxwell has nothing on the lying government! And yes we are angry it should never have been done like this people should have paid into their own pensions and anyone at that point who didnot have enough time to get one should of been given benefits if they did not have enough, this problem would not have been here today if they had been responsible with our money. Mind you a life time fixed Isa would of been better, try ad get any money out early from your private pension and your taxed so heavily that you lose most of it. As pebsion age goes up and up we wont be able to retire this way at all.
Not a tough decision a political decision.
U turn straight away before it is too late. Disgusting behaviour toward pensioners...... Labour to go asap.
Yes with out doubt .
They should, but they wont labour has proved that they are nasty and don't care
Yes and sack Robem Reeves
Get rid of Labour...they are a disgrace to this country.
They better do or they are in for a rough ride all the things they said they wouldn't do and then do the complete opposite that finally tells me that they haven't got a clue the country is not going to stand for this shenanigans I am pleased but worried for the pensioners I didn't vote for this shower no confidence in them whatsoever we are running on a shoe string and it's about to snap great Christ what a mess.
It is so hard to find work when you get close to 65 even if one wants to
They need to sort out the 2 tier state pension. If you are on the old state pension you are lagging behind all those on the new state pension. Its not right. MPs should not be ableto claim all their livibg costs
If they want to stay in govt they should or give up their fuel allowance
They should give the poorer people no question come on labour
So Jeans retirement income is thr state pension + the equivalent of half the salary of her husbands full time job? Am i missing something? Why would she see it as an issue. Many of us can only dream of retiring with half our salary plus state pension.
Depends what her husband's salary was and how many years ago he retired. Ever heard of inflation?
He may have paid a high proportion of his wage on a private pension, some people were anticipating problems ahead. It's a personal choice, and it will be taxed. I'm seventy, so not anti pensioner.
Reeves should not do a U Turn on Winter fuel payment because that money is needed to give a pay cut to their rich Donors.
Cut of 6 pounds a week for me !! Tax free pension for you !!
Maybe???? Stop paying hundreds of millions out for Hotels with warm cosy rooms and 3 meals a day plus a cash handout,
Really Tory fan show today. Wouldn't surprise me if the callers were cherry picked.
If they dont U turn, its going to get very ugly out there !!!
No if means tested what's the issue ??
Not a u turn,but a proper means test.get to a figure then remove the winter fuel payment's from those above that number.not all pensioners are poor and not all are wealthy.need to find a common ground.its another government handout that was never handled properly to begin with.
Bertrayal
U turn if you want to, but the lady is not for turning- Maggie Thatcher.
I fear that the same will apply again.
Definitely YES
Working until your 67 is a joke all the men in my family died before 65 so no chance 4 me
Yes. Most pensioners will struggle. Not many don't need it.
I also wonder how it’s been allowed that the cost of the gas/ electric has gone up thousand fold but the £300 has never risen why
Labour did not say they would increase the Income Tax Threshold for Pensioners if the Increase in the State Pension takes them over the Personal Allowance unlike the Conservatives would have done. If the Government stopped sending British Tax payers money to Ukraine and Israel then the money could be kept in our country and spent on Pensioners Fuel Allowance. If Robber Reeves gets away with this the next thing that will happen is she will abolish the State Pension for all but the very poorest.
Yes yes yes, don’t see her giving up her fuel allowance!!!
Winter 🥶 Fuel ⛽️ Allowance Should Be Mandatory To All Pensioners In Great Britain 🇬🇧. And Get Labour Out Of Government ASAP.
Rich people have paid more tax & Ni so are more than entitled to it . If you work hard for 50 years & save for retirement you have a better life than someone who blew all his money & thats right & proper.
i will lose my winter fuel allowence because i get a war disablement pension and except for £10 it is classed as earnings,
Of course they should.
All pensioners should have a 20% discount card for everything they buy.
Yes the government should do a U turn on the winter fuel allowance
Why is no one talking about the payment being given it who live abroad who don’t contribute by what they purchase from vat etc. and the old today were also paying old depts accrued from previous generations .
One in four are millionaires? I know a lot of pensioners and I don't know any millionaires. The value of your house does not count. I am a working pensioner and I still use my winter fuel allowance for its proper purpose. Rich pensioners can always donate it to charity if they want to. And what will they attack next? Get rid of that ghastly woman ASAP
Damb right they should especially when now we pensioners have found out that they get 4500£ for their heating if we lose it then so should they what makes them any different from us we tell the truth they are experts at telling lies.
I read minimum pension 14400 for retirement.
If you don't have a separate work or private pension. It's 11500 , cuts you off from a lot of help as you don't qualify for pension credit. That's below the 250 a week officially poor figure for the UK
Three points: firstly, it is the older people who vote so stuffed up their own field; secondly, wealthy pensioners will give back the winter fuel payment within their taxation; lastly, it is so much cheaper and easier to utilise universal benefits and costly to means test.
Yes
Sometimes the difference between getting pension credit can be A few pounds
All 10 million pensioners should apply for pension credit and cause the system to collapse
This dsigrace they should say anyone Above say 15 000 a year shouldnt recieve the heating allowance
My deceased husband had a small private pension . I am allowed half of it, this puts me in the tax bracket and stops me from claiming any help. I would have been better off if my husband hadn’t got a private pension.
Labour are right to do this , why should people get it that don’t need it.
To be honest - as a pensioner since 2011 - l don’t need the fuel allowance and have benefitted from the triple lock increases while many working folk have had low or no increases. I fully agree that ALL low income retired people should get the benefit but a large number of pensioners have a decent income and have not suffered from mortgage increases as most own their homes outright. It is simple - benefits are for those in need so means test it like other benefits.
Novel idea, kick out Labour, they’ve lied and should be sued, they did know about the amount owed and should give up there own pay rise
All the people who were still working and got paid covid money shud pay it back. The pensioners didn't steal off the government. Pensioners didn't get covid money.
You need to link this in with the massive rises in energy due to net zero over the next few years. Already 77% will be the new increase due to new windfarms operating at far higher levels in order to make a profit. Plus containment charges at night and very windy days.
She needs to get out now labour voter
It's disgusting
Define wealthy, most pensioners have saved money all their working life and now are paying pay tax when they spend it and that will not last forever, it’s not an endless pot of money. I have worked very hard over my 40 odd years service and deserve better in my last years of life, now with liver cancer.
This is the hardest decision our Chancellor has had to make, what a load of rubbish, all of those wealth people who had their taxes reduced twice during the Tories Austerity measures, why not reverse that and then increase their taxes, my hardest decision was to vote for the Labour Party, something I did only because I was afraid of a Reform Party win, well as a disabled pensioner who who spends so much of my money on gas and electricity, mostly because I'm very ill and disabled, please someone bring back sanity and Jeremy Corbyn into the Labour Party,all is forgiven Jeremy help us fight these bastards, I will be voting for the Green Party unless Jeremy Corbyn want to start a new Democratic Socailist Labour Party.
OAPs will not be going out to work so need to heat their homes more in the Winter. Consequently they have higher energy bills. When costs go up as they will many willbe in financial. horror to stay warm. This is an example of a govmt just wanting to reduce costs by placing old people on the critical list.
They should but they wont
The very well of paid massive amounts of tax leave them alone
Yes they should, but if not they should means test child benefit as well....The logic of means testing applies equally to that benefit which millionaires and wealthy politicians can all claim....
You would agree that if this Government take away their fuel payment then labour will only have one turn of office, in addition to this is because I work my husband that don’t work cant receive this payment because he cant work any more . Take the big water Compnay, and alike. This Government are curl.
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Censorship
They are going to steal from the pensioners when they claim £3,500 fuel allowance don't you love the labour government. DO AS I SAY NOT DO AS I DO. CLEARLY HATES PEOPLE WHO THEY THINK ARE DRAINING THE SYSTEM BUT FINE FOR THE POOR COUNTRIES TO TAKE OUR MONEY IN FOREIGN AID ??????
Makes sense
As long it's not their grandparents or elderly parents
Stop take taking a load of crap are the labour government still taking their fule payments
add it to housing bennefit that means only those claiming the housing benefit will get it
All the oaps complaining bet they werent complaining when thr government were tsrgeting disabled and vunerable.
And many pensioners are disabled.
Yes the goverment should do a yew turn
yes they should u-turn, most pensioners cant afford to smoke and drink unlike u rachel
I see you have locked comments for today’s video, why?
I am disabled pensioner with an illness that my body has limited ability. I don't get pension credit as above the limit. I will become ill.
I paid National insurance and graduated pension nobody is explaining why I am suffering now I am 69.
Nick Cleggs Millionaire father applied for a bus pass
Means testing is fair but only after the Govt has Stop's making Charity funding to other countries like India with its space program or Afghanistan with its self inflicted issues.
We need to put our country First until our debts are paid and the homeless are housed and the illegal immigrants have returned to where they came from.
What a stupid Question 🤡
He's talking one in for are mill