To say the £35k winter fuel threshold is way too high!

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The threshold needed to be raised, but £35k?! I wish I earned that and I have a mortgage and commuting costs. It also doesn’t take into account savings (so they could have millions in the bank) or household income.

We all know it’s a bribe, but they still won’t get pensioners to vote for them.

i was so fed up with her complaining about losing it, one of the complaints that she read in the torygraph was how charities were missing out as rich pensioners had been donating their allowance!
i wont raise the subject any more i dont think

It does, in so far as the interest fm savings is 'income' so is counted towards the 35k.
Assuming 4% the income on 1 million would be 40k, so alone would deny the allowance.

If any one wants a really want a big moan, if that million was in ISAs then the interest is absolutely discounted.

‘Or take charity from others…..’ What do you think a food bank is?

That isn’t what I said. Try reading it.

No. But hmrc have access to all the interest you earn because the banks tell them so they know how much interest you will earn. And if you earn more than a thousand pounds in a year, or 500 if you're a high-rate taxpayer close then they will adjust your tax code so that you pay tax on the interest.

For the last time.....
1 person in receipt of state pension, with an income less than £35k a yr = £200

2 people at same address in receipt of state pension, both with an income less than £35k a year = £100 each (£200 in total)

2 people at same address in receipt of state pension, but only one with an income less than £35k a year = that one will get £200 (the other, with the higher income) will get nothing.

It does for some people. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1de612exp4o

Ollie Vass works for a nutritional supplement company, where he earns £31,000. His girlfriend Grace Sangster also 19 is on an apprenticeship scheme earning £40,000.

They each started saving from the age of 13, earning money mowing lawns and working in restaurants.

In April, with the help of a small inheritance and their Lifetime ISAs, the couple completed on a £360,000 two-bedroomed terraced house near Slough.

Ollie and Grace would like to see more support for young people starting out, especially first-time buyers, and more apprenticeships.

They also think the tax-free allowance, which has been frozen since 2021should rise so that people on low wages can keep more of their earnings.

Ollie also wants to see cheaper rail fares: "At the moment it's too expensive to use."

I earn 13k and manage to pay all
my bills & save each month!

35k imo is a lot when they’ve probably paid off mortgage and possibly have savings.

So the household income could be very high and there’s still a benefit paid

are there many apprenticeship schemes offering £40,000 salaries to 19 year olds?

No idea but they both managed to find them.

Child benefit is household income why wouldn’t this be?

Why give someone a benefit is the overall income is high

It’s not. It only stops if one parent is earning over the threshold.

one minute we're boomers who've had it all so easy and the next we're freezing in our mould ridden flats choosing heating or eating. The media plays with you all.

an apprentice earning 40K? a joke shurely?

So is this stopping if one person is over the threshold?

fake

It’s on the BBC News website. I linked to it. Why would they fake it?

No wonder the 9 out of ten figure below. It doesn’t even link two people in a household.

People over £70k combined could still be getting it for one of them. At least CB doesn’t do that.

Erm well yes but there were many of us on the left who absolutely disagreed with Thatcher’s policy of selling off assets to those who actually already owned them including council houses. I remember certain of my colleagues getting all excited about their gas shares and tell Sid and all that, and not partaking (didn’t have the money anyhow). We can clearly see the result today of these policies. So no, many boomers as you refer to us were very anti all that!

No it isn’t. It’s based on the earnings of the individual parents.

Yes it does.

Much like child benefit.

I'll be paying tax so that people who have an income far higher than mine get a state handout. Bloody stupid.

• If your income (or your partner's income if you're married or in a civil partnership) exceeds £60,000 per year, you'll still receive the full Child Benefit but will have to pay a portion of it back through the High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge.

It does take into account partner’s income.