An extra hubdred for OAPS?

[RaggedRocks]

The government wants us to keep cash at home for emergencies. Many pensioners are struggling to pay their bills and don't have a spare 100 quid.

AIBU to think that they should add an extra hundred onto the WFA in the budget, so oldies can have some spare cash to keep for the coming emergency. Also consider an extra hundred for UC recipients.

Some people across all age groups struggle and some don't. OAPs are not special in this.

What if all those people were given it then loads spent it on other things? Should they be given another 100?

Pensioners are less likely to be living in poverty in the UK than families and working age adults.

But if you mean any adults under a certain income, what would your threshold be?

It’s not the old people struggling

I am thinking pensioners who get the WFA aren'r well off.

OAPs are less likely to be in poverty than children are. How about £100 per child instead?

Anyone that strapped for cash, given £100, isn't going to stash it away for an emergency that will probably never happen.

TBH, I'm not sure what kind of emergency £100 would help in.

Children don't vote, that won't happen.

Yes but pensioners can still spend it on other things. So you give all pensioners 100 and half of them think woohoo and blow it on a great night out because they don’t think an emergency will happen. Then what? They are back to square one.

YABVVVU.

There are plenty of people out there who are not retired who don’t have a spare £100 to just keep sitting around.

True, but awful reasoning.
Nobody should or will get handed £100 anyway.

Pensioners? Great night out? Where?

You can get full winter fuel with an income of 35k. A pensioner with no housing costs and an income of 35k is considerably better off than the majority of the country

The winter fuel allowance isn’t means tested

Do you think that people stop going out at 65-67? My mum has a better social life than me

Wherever they fancy. My inlaws don’t have much money. They save up and treat themselves to a night at their local Miller and Carter twice a year. Why do you seem to think pensioners can’t go out?

It is now. But you get it (in full) with an income of 35k and under so you can have plenty and still get it

I stopped clubbing at 60 due to a bad knee.

Either everyone/ cheap to administer

or anyone on benefits - poor pensioners should claim their benefits like anyone else . If they are skint and entitled to benefits that’s on them

Are you seriously suggesting that if you give someone who has no money £100 they will draw it out and stick it in the cupboard?

My pensioner FIL and his GF will just add it to their spends for their next cruise.

What? My OAP ILs are regularly out at restaurants, theatre, pubs, concerts. Why wouldn't they?

Because many pensioners just have the state pension and aren't able to afford restaurants, theatre, pubs, concerts

Why are we throwing money at OAP's when there are just as many middleaged and younger people who are also struggling. I am on PIP and ESA cos i am disabled and unable to work. My husband is currently on SSP due to stress. After our bills and mortgage goes out there's pence left.
My in-laws are OAPs, they go on at least two holidays a year, often cruises. My MiL always has new shoes, clothes and handbags. They eat out all the time. They will gift us money for Christmas or birthdays but thats the only way we can treat ourselves.

No, it’s not means tested.

Anyone if any income can claim it - anyone which a taxable income of over 35k it will get absorbed in taxes.