Starmer the pensioner harmer....

The annual rise in state pensions applies to ALL STATE PENSIONERS, whether or not you happen to be a millionaire or a single pensioner with no other income.

Therefore the reasonably generous annual rises will be given to all pensioners, and the rise this year ( financial year 2024-2025 ) is the equivelant of THREE TIMES the maximum Winter Fuel Payment.

Its a pity that you "bleeding heart" Tories did not protest when George Osborne took away the Educational Maintainence Allowance from the poorest working people, or when working people on low incomes were hit with the Bedroom Tax, but no, that was fair according to Tory supporters.

One of my Facebook friends protested about the withdrawing of the Winter Fuel Payment, she wrote her Facebook comment whilst on holiday in a luxury villa in Cyprus, and when she got home she will return to her flat which she owns, and she will continue to recieve her private pension and her state pension - no doubt she votes Tory, and thinks that poor people deserve no help.

YES there are pensioners who struggle, I accept that, but the way in which the Winter Fuel Payments works is very wrong, because Millions of pensioners dont need it.

No such Tax IMO as Bedroomed tax , it meant single people living in a Council/ Social housing with more than one bedroom had a deduction in Housing Benefit to encourage them to move to a smaller property to free up their larger property for a family, it was a Policy not a Tax

Yes the way the winter fuel allowance works is very wrong.
As has been pointed out to you many many times , the previous system gave the pensioners who received slightly above the  limit for pension credits(  but were still struggling ) the allowance .
The new system deems those people wealthy enough not to need it .
If Labour and the lefties gave a fuck about the poorer but not impoverished pensioners then they should have and should be demanding the government put a fairer system into place but the truth is that lefties like you hate older or old and are not intelligent enough to realise that there is a broad spectrum of wealth and types of wealth in that group.
Its far easier to spout about pensioners having the most disposable income and lumping all but the poorest pensioners into the ‘ wealthy ‘ section.
Ill leave it there because you had trouble understanding the last post so I won’t risk overloading our brain with this one .

Why will we be 'better off'

Are our pensions linked to the 21% junior doctors deal ?

I doubt it

So if we're lucky they'll keep pace with the inflationary antics at the Bank of England with thousands finding that thanks to tax thresholds they have tomosy tax on their pension and also get smacked for it on their savings if they have any

You really do come up with some utter bullshit sometimes

You can rant roar swear do backward summersaults trying to kiss your own arse, there is no such thing as " Bedroom Tax,  it was a reduction of about £10 from those who claimed "Housing Benefit " funded from Taxation a comment from the media from last year 2023 .

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By Talia Shadwell, ITV News content producer



It has been a decade since the so-called 'bedroom tax' was introduced, to widespread controversy.



But ten years on, there appears to have been little appetite to find out whether the under-occupancy penalty actually worked.



Despite a growing housing crisis shaping up to be a key election battleground, neither the Conservative or Labour Parties would commit to any plans to review or abolish the bedroom tax, when asked by ITV News.



The policy, officially known as the 'removal of the spare room subsidy,' is perhaps better known by its nickname, the 'bedroom tax'.



The government says the policy, which took effect a decade ago, encourages people to move out of socially rented homes that are too big for them to make spaces for larger families.



Figures show despite the disincentive, hundreds of thousands of social housing households still pay today, and critics told us they are troubled by the lack of interest in reviewing the policy given the pressure of the cost of living crisis.



The government has confirmed it has no plans to review or abolish the policy, which was conceived at the height of the austerity era of welfare reforms.



It confirmed no official research into assessing the financial impact or success of the policy had been carried out in the last eight years, and ignored our query on whether any more research into the policy's impact on people's lives was planned.



Four times, ITV News asked Labour whether it stands by its past public commitments to abolish the bedroom tax if the party took power.



And four times, Sir Keir Starmer's party didn't respond, on a policy its MPs had in the past labelled "cruel."



But ten years after the bedroom tax was introduced, the national social housing stock continues to shrink. "

Assumptions and guesses

All bog standard standard MO for the average lefty attempting to justify their pathetic politics of envy .

Only some 50% of the adult population pay income tax , only private sector taxpayers actually contribute funds to the central pot , public sector workers and working age welfare spongers only ''pay'' any tax (purchase/income) with private sector funds given to them by a grasping government 

Why do posters refer to Social Housing as "tax payers subsidised housing" ?

The MINIMUM rent that any tennant pays in my area for either Council or Housing Association homes is £100.00 per week, and if that property has a lifespan of 40 years, that equates to £210,000.00 for a flat ( in my area ) worth £100,000 or a three bed property worth £180,000.

The vast majority of Housing Association / Council House occupiers are (A) working, and (B) on such incomes that exclude them from buying a property, in many cases because they cannot aford the deposits.

Its always the same with Tories and Tory supporters, they look down on such people, scorn public sector workers, and think that such people are undeserving because they are helped thanks to our welfare state created by the Labour Party.