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Eggs said:
….presume so, I’m 68 this week and the wife reaches state pension age next month and tells me this morning it’s already due to go up another £400+ next year.
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I suppose the issue is that the WFA arrives at a different time and the £460 is not a lump sum, but the cold weather payment will provide cover for periods of very cold weather..

www.gov.uk

Cold Weather Payment

Cold Weather Payment - what you'll get, eligibility and how to find out if your area is due a payment.
www.gov.uk www.gov.uk

Warm home discount
www.gov.uk

Warm Home Discount Scheme

The Warm Home Discount Scheme could take £150 off your winter electricity bill - eligibility, how to get your discount, deadlines.
www.gov.uk www.gov.uk

And free boiler & insulation
www.gov.uk

The Great British Insulation Scheme

Information for eligible applicants about free or cheaper insulation to reduce your home’s energy bills - including how to make a complaint about installation.
www.gov.uk www.gov.uk
 
Labour have talked about difficult decisions, I expect the budget to be 'antagonistic', they've talked about 'pain to come', fixing the black hole of finance that was engineered just for this by the previous clowns that knew full well they were finished in governance.

Part of politics is nobbling the incoming new government, so you can point at and scream 'told you so'.

The two child cap needs to go, and when the country can afford it, it will. If incremental progress can be made, and that's small steps like a billion here, and a billion there, then so be it. The deficit needs addressing, this is what a lot of labour support asked for - tell us how deep in the mess we are ALL in, and then show us the steps we ALL need to take to slowly drag us ALL out of the gutter that we have been landed in by the dirt filth racist scum tories.

Politics live suggesting a lot of labour mp's looking to abstain on todays vote. I wonder if that picture that got removed is because there's plans for a pic like the following will be going up... I wonder...
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Jebus_lives said:
Would the proposed increase in state pension not cover the loss of WFA?

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Increasing by £460.
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Did you not read my post? The movement in state pension is driven by the following:

Under the triple lock system, the state pension rises each April in line with whichever of these three measures is highest:
  • inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) in the September of the previous year
  • the average increase in wages across the UK
  • or 2.5%
It's not a case of plucking a figure out of thin air. It's an increase that FOLLOWS what has already gone before. It's a catching-up exercise, not a financial lead in any way.

WFA has no role to play in it whatsoever...
 
PSB1 said:
Talk that the Single Person Council Tax Reduction could be the next measure to further tax those " ... with the broadest shoulders". Not heard anything about a wealth tax as yet.
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Feels like one or the other of this or the winter fuel would have been a better way to go , given the amount of widows for example . Might have made more sense to go with this alone maybe , if they’re doing it then hopefully some kind of income threshold kicks in.

I’m hoping all this is a prelude to shifting some weight to others in the budget otherwise it does look like those shouldering the burden aren’t the most suitable .

I appreciate that we’re in a mess and wishing isn’t going to get us out of it . I’ll also accept any criticism for this decisions from those to the left of starmer , those to his right who’ve cheerleaded us into this exact mess would frankly be better suited hanging their collective heads in shame although we’ve already seen a blowtorch wouldn’t redden their necks .
 
PSB1 said:
Talk that the Single Person Council Tax Reduction could be the next measure to further tax those " ... with the broadest shoulders". Not heard anything about a wealth tax as yet.
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If so they’ll have to do that so carefully or it will get destroyed in the Courts - one would think anyone in a studio or one bed flat would find it very easy to prove that they are actually occupying properties intended for single occupants.

Personally I think a rebanding is more likely, especially if they put it on a regular schedule.
 
tsubaki said:
If so they’ll have to do that so carefully or it will get destroyed in the Courts - one would think anyone in a studio or one bed flat would find it very easy to prove that they are actually occupying properties intended for single occupants.

Personally I think a rebanding is more likely, especially if they put it on a regular schedule.
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You could have no single discounts for bands c(which would normally be a 2/3 bed house) and above
 
tsubaki said:
That would work, provided there was still protection for when people are bereaved or split up suddenly - maybe a taper period where the single person discount could be claimed or something like that.
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NO! It's not labours fault your partner left you cos you smell

Yes, 6 months or something...fairly easy to administer as well
 
Charro said:
No, you’ve just continued to vote for a party that doesn’t believe in the welfare state.

You’re so transparent. You don’t care, you’re just using this as fuel to have a dig because you’re heartbroken that your hero was found out and rightly ousted.
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Which bit of “I didn’t vote Tory “ did you not understand….
 
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