Brighton Sky Blue
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This is an expensive way of not fundamentally solving the problem. Unless we want to pay out an extra £10 billion every year
This is an expensive way of not fundamentally solving the problem. Unless we want to pay out an extra £10 billion every year
We’re talking about a govenrment currently railing against their own Brexit deal they signed less than two years ago. Long term thinking is not in their wheelhouse.
My mum is on one, and trying to encourage her to come off it. But if she moves off it and on to one of the shitty tariffs being offered will she end up being worse offThey're awful. Regardless of what the discounts are, I'm sure you pay more for those and only a way of paying for those who can't manage their money. Make your supplier remove it.
The Quote i put up is for 1 working adult many houses have 2 working in them .Which is what the pensioners quote is for a married couple.Big difference is housing costs.
The Quote i put up is for 1 working adult many houses have 2 working in them .Which is what the pensioners quote is for a married couple.
So you think pensioners never had all those things to pay.Many do, many also have kids to feed. Housing costs and kids take a significant chunk of take home pay. What you earn matters less for QoL than what you have to spend after essentials.
Proportionally it wasn’t the same.So you think pensioners never had all those things to pay.
So you think pensioners never had all those things to pay.
No it’s not Pensioner living on state pension currently get £141.85 a week. Come the winter they are likely to be in their house, not necessarily owned by them for far more hours a day than somebody who goes to work. They are also far more likely to feel the cold than somebody 30-50 years their junior. They will be making the decision daily heat or eat.What? That’s not the point. If you’re looking to support peoples incomes right now for the cost of living crisis that is happening now, what someone’s economic position was decades ago is irrelevant.
Working age people will on average be hit harder by this stuff than pensioners so that’s where most of the support should go. It’s not rocket science.
No it’s not Pensioner living on state pension currently get £141.85 a week. Come the winter they are likely to be in their house, not necessarily owned by them for far more hours a day than somebody who goes to work. They are also far more likely to feel the cold than somebody 30-50 years their junior. They will be making the decision daily heat or eat.
If they’re living solely on state pension they’d get Pension Credit.
No it’s not Pensioner living on state pension currently get £141.85 a week. Come the winter they are likely to be in their house, not necessarily owned by them for far more hours a day than somebody who goes to work. They are also far more likely to feel the cold than somebody 30-50 years their junior. They will be making the decision daily heat or eat.
I would like to say in 2021 3.6 million pensioners and just over 3.million working age people claimed more than 1 benefit,the impression I get is you think the workers should have preference over pensioners I think both should get equal standing.What? That’s not the point. If you’re looking to support peoples incomes right now for the cost of living crisis that is happening now, what someone’s economic position was decades ago is irrelevant.
Working age people will on average be hit harder by this stuff than pensioners so that’s where most of the support should go. It’s not rocket science.
I would like to say in 2021 3.6 million pensioners and just over 3.million working age people claimed more than 1 benefit,the impression I get is you think the workers should have preference over pensioners I think both should get equal standing.
P.S I have no axe to grind I do not claim.
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