- inspectorst ( @inspectorst@feddit.uk ) 10•2 months ago
Good. It’s bonkers we were handing out non-means-tested fuel benefits to pensioners living in million pound homes, while young people and families in genuine need were struggling.
Pure Tory pork-barrel politics to bribe the one generation that most reliably voted for them. Now let’s get rid of the pension triple lock next please.
- HorseRabbit ( @HorseRabbit@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•2 months ago
Pensioners have it too good? Is that the line here?
- Sadbutdru ( @Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz ) 2•2 months ago
- HorseRabbit ( @HorseRabbit@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•2 months ago
So from this graph we can say that with all the government help they receive pensioners are about as poor as working people without kids. And that’s bad. Pensioners should be poorer than working people
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•2 months ago
labour be like
making rich people and businesses pay their fair share? 😤
punishing poor people and pensioners and making them freeze in the winter? ayyyyyye 👉👉 finger guns
- ScreamingFirehawk ( @ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk ) 6•2 months ago
Anyone who actually needs the winter fuel payment will still get it - people who get pension credits for example. There are many pensioners getting winter fuel payments that are plenty well off and do not need the free cash, my Grandma is one of them. She will make a fuss about how she needs it but she is by far the most well off in our family.
- Baggins ( @baggins@beehaw.org ) English1•2 months ago
Same here with my brother in law. He gives his pension to his wife as he doesn’t need it. She gave up work because they can afford it.
- Echo Dot ( @echodot@feddit.uk ) 6•2 months ago
Yeah because why bother reading? So much easier to just make up your own reality.
Even just read the title you would know how much of an idiot you sound. Literally says that they are removing it from people who are not on benefits therefore anyone who is on benefits is still going to get it.
- sunbeam60 ( @sunbeam60@lemmy.one ) 2•2 months ago
This is also about communication strategy. We are make some fringe cuts now, but prepping for a big statement down the road.