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Churchlawtonblue said:
Again my post wasn't about the winter fuel payment lol good grief indeed Vic.
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You were replying to "She’s scrapped the winter fuel payments to pay for the public sector pay rises. October is going to be a bloodbath for anyone who has worked hard, been responsible, built up a pension, managed to get a few quid in the bank for old age etc. Reeves and Labour will steal it so they can piss it away as they always do."

So you were commenting not on what Reeves has done today but on guesswork about what will happen in October.

Whereas all the Tory whiners seem not to have noticed that the Tory freeze on personal allowances is a massive tax hike that wasn't in any Tory manifesto (nor the NI cuts that have contributed to the financial black hole).
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
I wasn't talking about the winter fuel payment?, where did I mention that?
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Presumably you were referring to some hyperbole about the government stealing your pension then. Not sure why you took that seriously when there was absolutely no detail or relationship with anything anyone has actually suggested is going to happen.
 
Don Karleone said:



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Vote Labour they said.
They're not cunts they said.

#dindunuffin
 
Vic said:
You were replying to "She’s scrapped the winter fuel payments to pay for the public sector pay rises. October is going to be a bloodbath for anyone who has worked hard, been responsible, built up a pension, managed to get a few quid in the bank for old age etc. Reeves and Labour will steal it so they can piss it away as they always do."

So you were commenting not on what Reeves has done today but on guesswork about what will happen in October.

Whereas all the Tory whiners seem not to have noticed that the Tory freeze on personal allowances is a massive tax hike that wasn't in any Tory manifesto (nor the NI cuts that have contributed to the financial black hole).
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It was a statement about tax in general, if your confused I'm sorry. If you and others want to try and score points or call me a Tory whiner or whatever, good you win congrats, I'm not bothered.
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
Do you live in a one bedroom house? If not, why not take in a lodger if you are short of cash?
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Totally lost the point of why pensioners don't like claiming cash and would rather freeze than claim but also lost the point about people saving money.

No one will save now and will claim everything they can.
 
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mancityvstoke said:
Totally lost the point of why pensioners don't like claiming cash and would rather freeze than claim but also lost the point about people saving money.

No one will save now and will claim everything they can.
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Pointless mate. Yes I'm sure eighty year old Ethel wants to spend her final years living with a lodger. Also overlooking the fact if she took one in they'd cut her benefits.
 
west didsblue said:
Presumably you were referring to some hyperbole about the government stealing your pension then. Not sure why you took that seriously when there was absolutely no detail or relationship with anything anyone has actually suggested is going to happen.
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It was a confirmatory statement to the original posters reamarks about the October budget about tax in general. And how the hard working middle class will end up paying for everything as usual as they we are the easy touch for all governments.
 
It would be interesting to see how many of the retired this will have serious consequences for? Like on this thread, are our retired worried about paying their energy bills, buying groceries and keeping a roof over their head, or are they in a good position, no energy concerns, run a car as well as having a holiday or 2 each year.

I’m genuinely uncertain on this choice as on one hand I don’t like that people that can afford it should be getting it. On the other, I would hate it if it affected those on the bread line.
 
mancityvstoke said:
Totally lost the point of why pensioners don't like claiming cash and would rather freeze than claim but also lost the point about people saving money.

No one will save now and will claim everything they can.
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If that means that the money is pumped back into the economy, surely that’s a good thing?
 
The Future’s Blue! said:
It would be interesting to see how many of the retired this will have serious consequences for? Like on this thread, are our retired worried about paying their energy bills, buying groceries and keeping a roof over their head, or are they in a good position, no energy concerns, run a car as well as having a holiday or 2 each year.

I’m genuinely uncertain on this choice as on one hand I don’t like that people that can afford it should be getting it. On the other, I would hate it if it affected those on the bread line.
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It's those pensioners who have saved just over the thresholds for pension credit .......the incentive now is to spend instead as they see people getting big pay rises and they get fuck all but £200 lousy quid a week state pension
 
mancityvstoke said:
It's those pensioners who have saved just over the thresholds for pension credit .......the incentive now is to spend instead as they see people getting big pay rises and they get fuck all but £200 lousy quid a week state pension
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It’s a fucking shit system and not sure it’s been made worse by 14 years of the Conservative Party. Hopefully you’ve got a private pension to help you through.

My mother-in-law, God bless her soul, only had a state pension to fall back on when she retired, but managed to run her home without any real issues. I didn’t realise the pension was so low.
 
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