MSE News: Inflation soars, but means higher state benefits

Rjohnmatt

im-lost wrote: »

So whats the problem? they can afford their own care so they should pay for it, or are you suggesting that the state pays for their care so they can leave little Oswald and Belinda a little pot of gold

They cant use the money or house once they are six feet under, so its only right that those that can afford it pay for it.

Well except you will find that the scrounger anticapitalist benefit seeker would expect the same rights/residential homes etc after working for less than a week in his own life,I think its only right that those who worked hard to get to where they are deserve to leave their children a pot of gold,instead of having to share it with lazy scumbags who cream off others effort!!

cit_k

bobmccluckie wrote: »

at yesterday's briefing Downing Street said that whilst committed to upping pensions using Sept CPI there was no guarantee that they would up benefits by the same process.
You have been warned!
Full briefing here
http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/37670/benefits_inflation_link_reviewed%3F.html

Osbournes an idiot...

He was the one that moved benefits from RPI to CPI just last year, predicting it would save 6 billion pounds....

Note how they are now trying to make out its 'traditional' and usual for it to be CPI linked... When its them that imposed this last year.

1.02pm: Osborne says that from next year he will increase benefits, with the exception of pension and pension credits, in line with the CPI index, instead of the RPI index. This will save more than £6bn by the end of the parliament, he says.

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poppasmurf_bewdley

cit_k wrote: »

Osbournes an idiot...

He was the one that moved benefits from RPI to CPI just last year, predicting it would save 6 billion pounds....

Note how they are now trying to make out its 'traditional' and usual for it to be CPI linked... When its them that imposed this last year.


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It's probably traditional in the Tory party, as they did the same thing in the early 1980's - Geoffrey Howe if I remember rightly!

Another idiot.