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What shall I do with my Heating Allowance?
TruckerT
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This week I received my £200 heating allowance, and last month I received my £130 warm homes discount. Last year my total fuel bill was £380, and I have recently spent £40 on thermal underwear.
There are people in Europe who are in far greater need than me.
Should I join UK UnCut?
TruckerT
There are people in Europe who are in far greater need than me.
Should I join UK UnCut?
TruckerT
According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
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Nope just turn the heating up a degree and keep yourself healthly and warm. As you get older you may find you need heating more and the prices are still rising so it won't go far.This week I received my £200 heating allowance, and last month I received my £130 warm homes discount. Last year my total fuel bill was £380, and I have recently spent £40 on thermal underwear.
There are people in Europe who are in far greater need than me.
Should I join UK UnCut?
TruckerT:footie:
Regular savers earn 6% interest (HSBC, First Direct, M&S) Loans cost 2.9% per year (Nationwide) = FREE money. 0 -
No doubt there are people in your own town that are in far greater need than you.
If you dont need it, find a local person who does.0 -
Treat it as a tax rebate.
If you can afford to give money to charity, and want to, then fine. But there's no need to relate the two things. How many families that could afford to give their child allowance to charity do so I wonder ?No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
Margaret Thatcher0 -
GeorgeHowell wrote: »Treat it as a tax rebate
I understand your comment, but for me it sounds a bit too much like the Margaret Moran approach to fiscal morality. She is now officially mad, and I would prefer not to follow her down that particular road any further than I have already done so.
TruckerTAccording to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.0 -
If you are being serious, theres a charity setup to recycle this collosal waste of taxpayer cash and put it to good use, targetted at those who most need it.
http://www.communityfoundations.org.uk/about/survivingwinter/0 -
This week I received my £200 heating allowance, and last month I received my £130 warm homes discount. Last year my total fuel bill was £380, and I have recently spent £40 on thermal underwear.
There are people in Europe who are in far greater need than me.
Should I join UK UnCut?
TruckerT
Donate the money to Children in Need.
That'll give you a warm glow of satisfaction.0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »If you are being serious, theres a charity setup to recycle this collosal waste of taxpayer cash and put it to good use, targetted at those who most need it.
http://www.communityfoundations.org.uk/about/survivingwinter/
I guess I was trying to think of a meaningful way to challenge the idiocies of the UK welfare state.
TruckerTAccording to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.0 -
No. Spend it on Krug or throw it on the pools. It's what most older people do with it.This week I received my £200 heating allowance, and last month I received my £130 warm homes discount. Last year my total fuel bill was £380, and I have recently spent £40 on thermal underwear.
There are people in Europe who are in far greater need than me.
Should I join UK UnCut?
TruckerT
Total fuel 380 a year, do you chop your own wood? We still get through 800 quid a year of gas.
You could burn the cash. Ironic and deflationary at the same time,0 -
I understand your comment, but for me it sounds a bit too much like the Margaret Moran approach to fiscal morality. She is now officially mad, and I would prefer not to follow her down that particular road any further than I have already done so.
TruckerT
If I'm beginning to sound like Margaret Moran I'd better stop posting and go into retreat for about six months.No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
Margaret Thatcher0
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