MSE News: Inflation soars, but means higher state benefits

poppasmurf_bewdley

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

I doubt that there are all that many pensioners who rent privately and paying less benefit is hardly taking away. Anyway, for a couple who've worked, the pension increases will be rather more than £7.

Only a couple of million or so, so not that many then!

Only a Tory sympathiser could regard paying less benefit as NOT taking money away!

Remember the words of a former Tory Constituency Chairman (emulating Dickens) "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

Oldernotwiser

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

Only a couple of million or so, so not that many then!

Only a Tory sympathiser could regard paying less benefit as NOT taking money away!

Remember the words of a former Tory Constituency Chairman (emulating Dickens) "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

Tory sympathiser - my @rse!

flight747

No rises for all benefits please! Reduce it down! Get all these peoples into work! Why should we all pay for them who are lazy and can't be bothered look for work. Let alone my taxes money go to them!

bobajob_1966

flight747 wrote: »

No rises for all benefits please! Reduce it down! Get all these peoples into work! Why should we all pay for them who are lazy and can't be bothered look for work. Let alone my taxes money go to them!

I love your contradictory posts!

flight747 wrote: »

It will never going to work.

Example 1: Council Tax £1674 mean reduce JSA to £35 per week (impossible to pay water rent, gas and electricity and phone bill) nothing left for food, house insurance or clothes! will be dying and staving to death.

Example 2: Council Tax £1674 mean I quit JSA for good and don't pay council tax and sent to jail (free jail meal)

poppasmurf_bewdley

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Tory sympathiser - my @rse!

Yes, a lot of Tories are interested in the rear end!

If you don't want to be classed as a Tory, don't sound like one!

skater_kat

don't benefits increase every april anyway!!

im-lost

JezR wrote: »

I guess you have forgotten about the government that decided not to pay the Christmas bonus to pensioners for 2 years.

Really the oldies expect a bonus? a bonus for what? being alive? they should be
grateful they are still alive the decrepit old fools :A

Oldernotwiser

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

Yes, a lot of Tories are interested in the rear end!

If you don't want to be classed as a Tory, don't sound like one!

Well, if you don't want to be classed as a fool, don't sound like one!

(I notice that you haven't commented on the fact that pension increases will be higher than the amount being "taken away " in LHA/HB.)

poppasmurf_bewdley

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Well, if you don't want to be classed as a fool, don't sound like one!

(I notice that you haven't commented on the fact that pension increases will be higher than the amount being "taken away " in LHA/HB.)

My old granny always used to say "It takes a fool to know a fool" so welcome to the Clan!

And I notice that YOU haven't commented on the fact that your 'not many pensioners' turns out to be a couple of million or so!

You shouldn't try to be so clever when you evidently don't have the intelligence to match your ambition!

Oldernotwiser

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

My old granny always used to say "It takes a fool to know a fool" so welcome to the Clan!

And I notice that YOU haven't commented on the fact that your 'not many pensioners' turns out to be a couple of million or so!

You shouldn't try to be so clever when you evidently don't have the intelligence to match your ambition!

I'll comment on your statistic when you show a link to them - I always apologise when shown to be wrong and I'm happy to learn.

The fact that pensions for a couple are going up more than £7 per week is indisputable, which would explain why you choose to ignore it.