Winter Fuel Allowance - when paid?

clear_blu

minifan wrote:

Can yuo get this allowance if you are over 60 and still working?

Yes...........but you may have to apply if you are not receiving some other state benefit. Dont leave it too late, I think that March is the latest you can apply for this years payment.

al_yrpal

Got mine today a nice birthday present from the kind Mr Brown, the pensioners friend (irony!)

arunadasi

My husband should be getting WFA for the first time this year -- he is 66 but I didn't know about it until this year. Now he is getting Attendance Allowance and I was told that the WFA will now come automatically -- is this correct, or does he have to apply?

aloise

morganlefay wrote: »

I don't understand these payments. My husband is exactly a year older than I am (same day) and when he hit 60 he got £200 and was well chuffed. The following year because I was 60 too he only got £100 and I got what he thinks is 'his' other £100. Very strange. I think he'd like me to give him 'his' £100 back, but darned if I will !!!!!!!!!

Thats what happened to us, My hubby insists it is his money, so I make sure i send mine before he gets his grubby hands on it. A nice winter coat this year I think. (well is is meant to keep us warm ). He also thinks, (said ) that my pension, the married women's allowance is rightly his as it's from his pension payments. Stingy old b*****d.:D

hethmar

I understood that if you are receiving a government pension then you should automatically get the WFA if you qualified by July of that year?

arunadasi

My husband does not get any pension from the UK. I'm wondering if he needs to apply or if it comes automatically with Attenance Allowance.

anmarj

arunadasi wrote: »

My husband does not get any pension from the UK. I'm wondering if he needs to apply or if it comes automatically with Attenance Allowance.

it will be paid out by AA as they are the qualifying benefit as he has no other qualifiying benefits that preceeds it. the payment should be made by end of December, so it will be difficult to say when he will receive it.

margaretclare

aloise wrote: »

Thats what happened to us, My hubby insists it is his money, so I make sure i send mine before he gets his grubby hands on it. A nice winter coat this year I think. (well is is meant to keep us warm ). He also thinks, (said ) that my pension, the married women's allowance is rightly his as it's from his pension payments. Stingy old b*****d.:D

Couldn't live with a fella like that. It would have to be a Saga divorce. You'd get 100% pension from his NI contributions then, as my DH's ex still does, and it's now 13 years to the day since he left her.

datostar

RootCanal wrote: »

It's only paid to the second person to turn 60 if they actually apply. I thought there didn't seem much point really, so I never bothered applying. As long as the £200 drops into a bank account with my name on somewhere, I'm happy to leave things as they are.

I didn't have to apply. My wife's older than me so started getting it first. When I turned 60 they wrote to me asking for account details for it to go into and then started paying half to me. My wife's dropped by half.

aloise

margaretclare wrote: »

Couldn't live with a fella like that. It would have to be a Saga divorce. You'd get 100% pension from his NI contributions then, as my DH's ex still does, and it's now 13 years to the day since he left her.

O I wish, bit to old now though.Both in our 70s. Still I get my own way mostly (well always ):Dand have just learned to ignore.