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Winter Fuel Payments
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just got a letter and it will be paid in the next few weeks,are you waiting???
its £200.
its £200.
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I don't believe anyone under the age limit as Yorky Lass has stated will receive WFA. DLA alone doesn't qualify for it. DLA recipients may qualify for cold winter payment where the temperature is below a certain degree for so many days providing they are in receipt of means tested benefits. That is what I understand, maybe I am wrong and apologise if I am.
19:34 Sat 09th Nov 2013
As I won't become a pensioner until age 66 I assume I won't be able to claim it before then. So I've got a dozen or so years to wait, but I'm not convinced it'll still be given to all pensioners by then. The payment does seem a bit of an anomaly to me (since there must be many non-pensioners who need it more than some pensioners) but as i don't like means testing I'd much rather see it added to the basic weekly state pension or make it subject to tax for those pensioners above the tax threshold
IDS has simply proposed the ending of some universal benefits to pensioners. i.e. he's suggesting that the money currently given to multi-millionaires could be better used to help the poorer members of society (which is actually a 'socialist' policy!). He has NOT proposed scrapping winter fuel payments to everyone.
I don't believe anyone under the age limit as Yorky Lass has stated will receive WFA. DLA alone doesn't qualify for it. DLA recipients may qualify for cold winter payment where the temperature is below a certain degree for so many days providing they are in receipt of means tested benefits. That is what I understand, maybe I am wrong and apologise if I am.
I`ve got my winter fuel payment just last week.It wes £100. My wife has yet to get hers.She also gets £100=£200 between us.But that £200 will only pay for,I guess, about 1-2 months of power of gas/electric if we are lucky.So it`s not that generous really---though I/we are grateful for it. As they say "Every little helps"
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