Hmm I must tell that to the elderly lady I know who already only puts her boiler on for an hour in the morning to heat enough water to take a shower and only has a cooked meal every other day in order to save money to pay for heating one room over the winter and is planning to go to bed at 6.00 pm every night. I am sure she will think it is a “good deal”!
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Labour like the means-tested, Tories don’t. So perhaps Labour should come up with fairer means-testing: a way of lumping together those that don’t want, or shouldn’t need, WFP and paying it to the rest of the pensioners.
I know, we are all in different situations. I was just quoting Rachel Reeve.
Which pensioners are getting £900 more than last September?
Fuel bills may be lower than last winter when they were extortionate but they are due to go up again next month, why not tax the obscene profits the energy companies are making rather than pensioners.
Everything referred to now pension wise, refers to the ‘new’ state pension paid to a man born after 6/4/51 or a woman born after 6/4/53. All those born before those dates receive the old/basic state pension, which is less than the new pension.
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It sounds like our chancellor has got her sums wrong.
Labour detest people who have saved a few bob and want everybody to rely on and be beholden to them.
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I’m actually getting £842 more per year than I was last year due to the rise in pension last April…However, I’m paying £144 more tax each year since the rise in pension put me in the tax bracket for my works pension.
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It looks like I was lucky to be born in '52. I’d be interested to know what is the difference between old and new state pension.
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The weekly rate of the full new State Pension is £221.20 per week.
The weekly rate of the full basic or old State Pension is £169.50 per week.
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It must always be a difficult decision - on the one hand truly poor people need support, who might always have struggled and without extra support would really struggle.
On the other hand there are people who’ve worked and saved a bit, not rich, but just about doing ok as long as they are very careful.
In the ideal world they both get support, maybe a bit more for the first group - but still a bit for the second group. However there might not be enough money to support both. So who gets support? Most likely the truly poor. But that decision is not about detesting the people who worked hard and saved a bit.
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She’s certainly making a better fist of it than one of the recent Tory Prime Ministers !
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Welcome to the forum Andrew, I look forward to reading you…
A warm welcome to Over50sChat, Paddles… 
Thanks for the welcome folks!
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Here’s deep hypocrisy from Starmer for you👇
Keir Starmer on X: “My Labour Party will always be on the side of pensioners let down by the Tories. https://t.co/uMKAtkInL0” / X
PS … you really could NOT make this up
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The sentiment is right in principle, just like the poll tax, but, the means testing needs to be spot on.
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Welcome Paddles, get stuck in and don’t be shy!
One third of pensioners who would be eligible for pension credit do not take - who knows why. It could be up to £95 a week. A lot more than £300 a year. The government should be promoting this so that hard up pensioners do not suffer this winter.
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