Chancellor Reeves has cut Winter Fuel Allowance for pensioners but claimed heating expenses on top of her salary of over £90k Right-wing Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves has become known as ‘R…
Right but this is a fund explicitly intended for people who don’t have a lot of money. If you’ve got a private pension you’ve got money.
The whole point is so that you don’t start to suffer from surprise expenses like large heating bills because the weather suddenly gets very cold. You’re not supposed to be trying to live off that payment.
It’s daft that it isn’t means tested, my grandmother for example when she died had over 2 million pounds in the bank and yet she used to get cold weather allowance.
There are two arguments to have here, one is whether or not it should be means tested, and the other is what the limit should be.
Privrate pension is included.
And it makes no difference where the money comes from. It is all your income. So everything you have to live off.
Right but this is a fund explicitly intended for people who don’t have a lot of money. If you’ve got a private pension you’ve got money.
The whole point is so that you don’t start to suffer from surprise expenses like large heating bills because the weather suddenly gets very cold. You’re not supposed to be trying to live off that payment.
It’s daft that it isn’t means tested, my grandmother for example when she died had over 2 million pounds in the bank and yet she used to get cold weather allowance.
There are two arguments to have here, one is whether or not it should be means tested, and the other is what the limit should be.