Restoration of the age related allowance

mystic_trev

harz99 wrote: »

66016 now signed.

66016 still signed

At this rate Haley's comet will have come around again before it reaches 100,000 :rotfl:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley's_Comet

bigadaj

Good, totally unjustifiable.

harz99

harz99 wrote: »

Very few things are ever a "complete and utter waste of time", and as someone said "its not over until the fat lady sings".

So please sign the e-petition at

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/31778

thanks.

66123 now signed.

zygurat789

jamesd wrote: »

It's routine for people who work at home to pay those costs as well as the cost of power for the equipment used.

Sure you don't want to stop trying to dodge? Or you could just recant and accept that not everyone has the situation you were thinking of.

And you claim tax relief on it.

zygurat789

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150773/Bank-mum-dad-goes-bust-A-pensioners-forced-borrow-money-children-cover-soaring-bills.html

So at least a third of pensioners aren't at all rich. Osborne seems determined to tax them until the pips sqeak and give their money to the onses who really are rich.

mystic_trev

I suppose if it's in the Mail and Express it must be true?

But hang on, what's this I see.....

A poll of 2,000 retirees conducted by the firm Responsible Equity Release revealed that a third admitted to asking their children for money in the last year and a third also fear they may have to sell their house just to get by.

browniej

mystic_trev wrote: »

I suppose if it's in the Mail and Express it must be true?

But hang on, what's this I see.....

A poll of 2,000 retirees conducted by the firm Responsible Equity Release revealed that a third admitted to asking their children for money in the last year and a third also fear they may have to sell their house just to get by.

So out of a pensioner population of around 12.4 million, 2000 were surveyed. Truly representative!

hugheskevi

So at least a third of pensioners aren't at all rich. Osborne seems determined to tax them until the pips sqeak and give their money to the onses who really are rich.

29% of children are in households with incomes below 60 per cent of median net disposable household income after housing costs.

22% of working age adults are in households with incomes below 60 per cent of median net disposable household income after housing costs.

16% of pensioners are in households with incomes below 60 per cent of median net disposable household income after housing costs.

Source here.

le_loup

browniej wrote: »

So out of a pensioner population of around 12.4 million, 2000 were surveyed. Truly representative!

So clearly you know nothing about polling or statistics!

dunstonh

Hold on. That is a survey by a firm doing equity release on people who have done equity release. Equality release is aimed at those without money. So, no kidding that they get that many.