To think those OAPs that have just lost their WFA should commit a crime? get released early into a budget heated hotel

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WhatShallIdo11 · 11/09/2024 17:30

i voted labour - very sorry now - I can’t get over that some OAPs will really suffer this winter whilst we are releasing prisoners, some of whom will be put up in hotels at the state payers expense

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2dogsandabudgie · 11/09/2024 19:07

TrishM80 · 11/09/2024 19:04

The problem is when people think of OAPs they think of little old ladies shivering in their freezing cold house.

The reality is most pensioners are loaded and many can afford to retire to the Mediterranean if they're too cold.

Only on MN, however back in the real world.............

EasternStandard · 11/09/2024 19:07

TrishM80 · 11/09/2024 19:04

The problem is when people think of OAPs they think of little old ladies shivering in their freezing cold house.

The reality is most pensioners are loaded and many can afford to retire to the Mediterranean if they're too cold.

Even Labour MPs* were moved by the messages from their constituents on how worried and fearful they are. A list of impact from the cold, a previous study on 4000 deaths.

The reality is a vast spectrum the lowest of which will suffer.

*well some of them, they still voted for it though

Sussurations · 12/09/2024 07:04

2dogsandabudgie · 11/09/2024 19:03

But that's the problem though they haven't. If a person hasn't paid enough NI contributions over their working life they don't qualify for the full state pension of £220 a week. However because of this they are then entitled to pension credit which puts their weekly income up to £218 a week. This means they then qualify for WFA plus other benefits.

So for some pensioners who only get the full state pension of £220 a week the difference of a measly £2 means they now won't get the WFA.

This is what people are angry about. Tell me why a pensioner on £218 a week is poor but a pensioner on £220 a week isn't.

Rachel Reeves doing this and then claiming for fuel expenses on a second home is disgusting. She should have made the cut off point higher.

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I take your point, but cut off points have to be somewhere and it makes sense administratively to link it to pension credit.

BIossomtoes · 12/09/2024 11:49

Sussurations · 12/09/2024 07:04

I take your point, but cut off points have to be somewhere and it makes sense administratively to link it to pension credit.

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It would also make sense administratively to link it to the tax threshold. I have no idea why that wasn’t chosen.

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