WINTER FUEL PAYMENT

Why all the arsey responses on this thread?!

Are you eligible for the listed benefits that you are currently not receiving?

Please bear in mind that not heating your home adequately might well cause disrepair. Keeping the heating on low, at least for part of the day, so that the whole house is warm might save you money when it comes to disrepair, particularly if you are cooking without ventilation or attempting to dry clothes in the house, you could end up with condensation and mould.

You've just said that you don't need the WFA and would give it away so why are you so angry at not getting it? Also, why won't you be claiming your pension or disability benefits? There is money that you are entitled to claim but won't but you are getting angry about a much smaller benefit that you have never been entitled to and don't need anyway.

Your situation sounds difficult but you aren't really making sense.

You can’t be robbed of something you never had.

It's a benefit not an acquired asset so he's not really robbing you of anything.

How do you feel about the 2 child cap?

You do realise that some people aren't as tech savvy and that this particular issue is a source of great distress for some people who have limited means of income. Have some empathy.

You do realise that some people aren’t as good as others at inferring meaning from a post without relevant context? OP didn’t seem to be asking a question so how are people meant to respond?

You've just said that you will be OK to heat your home this winter so why do you need the £300 WFA?

The government hasn't robbed you, because that would be taking away something you already had. You aren't even a pensioner yet.

You do realise that some people aren't as tech savvy and that this particular issue is a source of great distress for some people who have limited means of income. Have some empathy.

If it bothers you that much, rather than snark, ask for the thread to be moved to chat.

@cobden28 Your plan sounds very sensible. I do hope that this winter is not too harsh and that you are able to keep warm.

There are resources available to people who are thinking heat or eat. If you are one of them, please do use them. Your Local Authority / Library / AgeUK can help.

I'm very sorry to hear you've lost your father. That's very hard for you.

The WFP is not linked though as it doesn't come into payment until November or December each year. It's not been cold enough yet to trigger a Cold Weather Payment anywhere across the UK.

Do you think the threshold is ok and Age UK have it wrong about 2.5m in hardship due to this policy?

EXACTLY The hypocrisy is stark

"Pensioners" is not a group you can lump together as a category of people requiring benefits. Categorising "pensioners" alongside carers or those with a disability is in bad faith. Aside from the fact that some people on a pension, the ones who most need it, are still getting the allowance. This is not a benefit that has been wholesale stripped away. It is being means tested - like all other benefits! The horror!

My dad WAS freezing He had prostate cancer so felt the cold. He died on 6 October.

I mean, OK. I have three very young children including through multiple birth, so it isn't that we sat down and planned three. Our heating bills alone are more than I would recieve if I was a SAHP so instead we pay the best part of £4k per month in childcare costs and I work 110 miles away three days a week.

We have never heated a room unnecessarily.

Exactly. I know some people are struggling, but a lot of complaining about CoL is people moaning that they're unable to afford to spend wastefully any more.

I'm sure 90% of the 'what have you cut back on due to CoL' things, we never did anyway, because it's just throwing money away unnecessarily.

It would ‘help’ most people id imagine, pensioner or not. Doesn’t mean they all need it though.
I absolutely think the threshold should have been higher than it has currently been set at, but that doesn’t mean that all pensioners need, or should get, the winter fuel payment.

My heart bleeds. Put a jumper on.

The general thinking is that all the pensioners who are entitled to pension credit but haven’t been claiming it will now put in an application (and quite rightly so) and this will completely wipe out the savings the government had forecast.
OP fill out the form on “entitled to” to see if you are in receipt of everything you should be.

Well obviously. Since you’ve said it to a poster on here.

I doubt it would go down well on any other benefits thread, not directed at cuts to pensioners.

This sort of whining entitlement is all too common.

For disability or carers etc. Sad that pensioners get this due to Labour

As I said, interpret what I said how you like.

I don't understand why you've posted this in AIBU? Of course heating just the room you're in is sensible. I thought this is what most of us did anyway, otherwise you're just throwing money away.

Your phrase

This sort of whining entitlement is all too common.

Quite stark when it comes to benefits.

Make your own inferences. I really don't care.

Which benefits do you apply this to?