Many of whom are below pension age.
Where are your calls for assistance to the needy?
Winter fuel allowance
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Many of whom are below pension age.
Where are your calls for assistance to the needy?
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Er, how many pensioners are below pension age??
Many of those who are struggling are below pension age.
You show no interest in people in need.
Helen Pidd @ the Guardian spoke to the MP Rachael Maskell [in a 20 minute podcast], who explained that, in her central York constituency, older people are so upset about potentially losing the payment they have been “stopping me in the street, grabbing my arm and saying: ‘Please help – because it’s my lifeline.’” She listened to impassioned debates and also spoke to Charlotte Nichols, the MP for Warrington North, who said, while she had been worried about the scrapping of the universal allowance, she understood that it was not fair that pensioners who were better off were getting extra money for heating. She also said she was reassured that the rise in the state pension would make up for the lost allowance for many pensioners, and she would be voting for the motion.
Personally, i think people who can afford to pay should do so, although it's clear many will walk a fine line after the payment is withdrawn, leaving them with a hard choice this winter. I think they may be in a minority and while that's their misfortune, perhaps it'll be for the greater good, as funding could be redirected elsewhere to help them in other ways.
Personally, i think people who can afford to pay should do so, although it's clear many will walk a fine line after the payment is withdrawn, leaving them with a hard choice this winter. I think they may be in a minority and while that's their misfortune, perhaps it'll be for the greater good, as funding could be redirected elsewhere to help them in other ways.
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Because of people like you inflating others appreciation count by appreciating their bellicose abusiveness and bluster.
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The same applies to nurses, midwives, delivery drivers, single parents (especially women who earn less than men in general), child minders, cashiers, etc.
And it costs to go to work. Commuting costs between £6 - £20 per day.
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Do you actually think the PM would have carried on with all of the Tory policies with no changes? Really?
Shock, horror, Labour aren't doing what the Tories did. Who'd a thought such a thing was possible...
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Think about it. It was in the run up to the 2017 election and pure electioneering as May was hinting at cutting WFA. Things have changed therefore policies change. that's politics for you.
Looking at it another way, the overall trajectory for (what is supposed to be) a civilised, advanced, and prosperous country, should be towards removing the need for "emergency" hardship payments, regardless of their nature, or their intended recipients.
The WFA was introduced in response to extraordinary circumstances, not to become the norm.
The WFA was introduced in response to extraordinary circumstances, not to become the norm.
Nothing to do with the point that £300 million is unclaimed, your response that it saves head scratching was a jibe.
renewable energy is cheaper than power stations
and the world is moving forward rapidly with renewable technology....if the UK dont push forward we will be left behind
pale male stale plumbers whose career relies on fossil fuels tend to be man made climate change deniers............classic cognitive bias
No, it wasn't.
It was clearly stated in my post that, to account for things properly, you have to account for things fully.
If I ignore some of my known or foreseeable incomings or outgoings over a month, year, or lifetime, would it be any surprise or shock if I failed to balance my affairs?
Except for the fact that it then needs a power station anyway, as back up for when the sun don't shine and the wind blows. Which effectively doubles its cost..
We have massive reserves of nice clean gas we should be using first. Of course we will need to keep gas and coal stations on grid, for when the windmills aren't turning.
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