Previous UK government ‘covered up’ financial turmoil ahead of election

[BlueAnorak]

Apparantly it is predicted that the rise in benefit claims as a result of scrapping the Winter Fuel payments will cost £460m - more than the amount saved by scrapping the payment.
Whoops!

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

 

[flb]

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Apparantly it is predicted that the rise in benefit claims as a result of scrapping the Winter Fuel payments will cost £460m - more than the amount saved by scrapping the payment.
Whoops!

Isn’t that a good thing?

 

[BlueAnorak]

Isn’t that a good thing?

Not for Reeves budget calculations!
Making the change will cost more than she saves!

 

[Brewster's millions]

Isn’t that a good thing?

Genius idea.

Have hundreds of people processing claims, answering thousands of phone calls from anxious pensioners and greatly inflating the cost to the taxpayer of a policy decision that is already negatively impacting the public finances.

 

[PPT]

Apparantly it is predicted that the rise in benefit claims as a result of scrapping the Winter Fuel payments will cost £460m - more than the amount saved by scrapping the payment.
Whoops!

We have a government who are actually weaning people ON benefits, not off them. That is all Labour ever do. Tax the middle classes to the gills then then piss it away on benefit and welfare scroungers. Let’s see how big the fiscal black hole is in 5 years time?

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

So, it looks like people getting the benefits that they are entitled to is now a bad thing?

Not sure if the country is fucked with that mentality, or just this forum.

Some deep salty tears going on this morning.

 

[kaz7]

What will you think if it's PIP, or it's associated benefits that they hit next.

Will you still be happy because it's the red team doing it ?

You do realise that you don't have to support everything they do, it's alright to say that it is a crap policy decision, and still vote for them.

If you had read my posts in the last couple of days i said i am not happy with this policy , keep up

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

We have a government who are actually weaning people ON benefits, not off them. That is all Labour ever do. Tax the middle classes to the gills then then piss it away on benefit and welfare scroungers. Let’s see how big the fiscal black hole is in 5 years time?

So you classify low income pensioners as benefit scroungers?