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cbrown372

tokenfield wrote: »

I don't, the Pension Service does when it assessed our income.

Of the £90 net a week that I declare, they deduct £80 from my Pension Credit as other income. So effectively I work 15 hours for £10 - not really fair is it? I'm only £10 a week better off than if I had sat at home watching Jeremy Kyle every day and didn't work.

This will be the drumming job is it Andy?

tokenfield

cbrown372 wrote: »

This will be the drumming job is it Andy?

ehh? Drumming, what drumming??? And what or who is Andy???

I couldn't lift the drumsticks! No, I work from home using the telephone and computer.

SandraScarlett

tokenfield wrote: »

ehh? Drumming, what drumming??? And what or who is Andy???

I couldn't lift the drumsticks! No, I work from home using the telephone and computer.

Well I've lost count of the AEs, but they all boil down to the same thing Andy. You say you're sitting on a small fortune of bricks and mortar, you say you can access your capital, and you say you are going to get another inheritance.

And yet you claim Pension Credit! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Whether you paid your taxes and chose to send your children/grandchildren to private school or not, you're now happy to claim Pension Credit, which is coming out the coffers of other taxpayers.

You also say you've arranged your finances so that, should you or your wife need care, you won't have to pay for it. That makes me feel so warm and cosy inside, when I have to fork out £9 per hour for DH to attend Alzheimer's Club, and £300 for a weekend's respite.

And as things are looking really glum, I envisage in the future it'll be £4000 a month for full time care. Should I expect others to pay for that? Such as you?

xx

tokenfield

SandraScarlett wrote: »

Well I've lost count of the AEs, but they all boil down to the same thing Andy. You say you're sitting on a small fortune of bricks and mortar, you say you can access your capital, and you say you are going to get another inheritance.

And yet you claim Pension Credit! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Whether you paid your taxes and chose to send your children/grandchildren to private school or not, you're now happy to claim Pension Credit, which is coming out the coffers of other taxpayers.

You also say you've arranged your finances so that, should you or your wife need care, you won't have to pay for it. That makes me feel so warm and cosy inside, when I have to fork out £9 per hour for DH to attend Alzheimer's Club, and £300 for a weekend's respite.

And as things are looking really glum, I envisage in the future it'll be £4000 a month for full time care. Should I expect others to pay for that? Such as you?

xx

I don't fully understand some of your comments.

However, everybody is entitled to arrange their financial affairs in such a way that they are not 'attacked' by the government. Why would anyone want to be placed in the circumstances you find yourself in if they could so easilly avoid it?

People have choices to avoid tax avoid having the council assess it and avoid the DWP using it to restrict benefit entitlement.

SandraScarlett

tokenfield wrote: »

I don't fully understand some of your comments.

However, everybody is entitled to arrange their financial affairs in such a way that they are not 'attacked' by the government. Why would anyone want to be placed in the circumstances you find yourself in if they could so easilly avoid it?

People have choices to avoid tax avoid having the council assess it and avoid the DWP using it to restrict benefit entitlement.

But it's not a question of being "attacked" by the government, as you claim, is it? It's avoiding being self-funding, so that taxpayers cough up for you - when you're easily able to fund it yourself.

xx

tokenfield

SandraScarlett wrote: »

But it's not a question of being "attacked" by the government, as you claim, is it? It's avoiding being self-funding, so that taxpayers cough up for you - when you're easily able to fund it yourself.

xx

And? What is so wrong in doing that?

I am doing nothing more and nothing less than a lot of people do in order to protect capital for our use - our choice and to pass it to my children when we both go.

SandraScarlett

tokenfield wrote: »

And? What is so wrong in doing that? (shouldn't that read "Andy" :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:)

I am doing nothing more and nothing less than a lot of people do in order to protect capital for our use - our choice and to pass it to my children when we both go.

Meanwhile, the tax payer can pick up the care bill, which you would be able to pay, but choose not to.

xx

tokenfield

SandraScarlett wrote: »

Meanwhile, the tax payer can pick up the care bill, which you would be able to pay, but choose not to.

xx

If that is what happens so be it. I have no intention of making myself into a martyr for anybody.

If it's good for MP's and many others then who can object if I do the same?

princessdon

tokenfield wrote: »

If that is what happens so be it. I have no intention of making myself into a martyr for anybody.

If it's good for MP's and many others then who can object if I do the same?

Andy you used to hold out so much more, I enjoyed the is he/isn't he. Also for me much of what you say makes sense in regards to loopholes/exploitations. I've actually learnt a lot from you, disappointed with this ID though.

tokenfield

princessdon wrote: »

Andy you used to hold out so much more, I enjoyed the is he/isn't he. Also for me much of what you say makes sense in regards to loopholes/exploitations. I've actually learnt a lot from you, disappointed with this ID though.

Sorry I don't understand?