Benefit changes from April.

schrodie

RainbowBlue wrote: »

Disgusting that there is no increase in benefits for the sick and disabled. I wonder how much of a wage increase the Tory government will give themselves!

I think they've had about a £10K rise.

dippy3103

nannytone wrote: »

i am NOT blaming persioners.
how many times do i have to say it ! THEY DESERVE WHAT THEY GET.

what angers me is that far too many see the pensioners as 'the deserving' whilst disabled and unemployed are the scroungers or workshy.

some are, and some pensioners contributed as little as possible and spent every penny they earned and quite happily milk the system for all they can get.

just because someone reaches retirement age doesn't automatically mean they have led a righteous life and are untouchable unlike the disabled who are facing massive cuts in some circumstances

Exactly that!!!! Just because somebody is of pension age, it does not make them more deserving than people of working age.

dippy3103

RainbowBlue wrote: »

Disgusting that there is no increase in benefits for the sick and disabled. I wonder how much of a wage increase the Tory government will give themselves!

Looking forward to my 1% after my pay freeze.... We are NOT all in this together.

SandraScarlett

Having read through this thread, please forgive me, but I am absolutely giddy with excitement wondering how to spend my new found wealth. I've just checked my Pensions letter, and I am to receive the grand total of £2.23 a week increase!


Shall I treat myself to a coffee out, once a week? Or use it wisely, and buy a few stamps? If I save it, it'll help fund my annual dentist bills, or the creams I buy to relieve the pain in my arthritic legs and arms. :j


I need new glasses, and, due to my advancing years, and the aches and pains, I'm unable to do various jobs that involve climbing a step-ladder, so have to employ tradesmen to do these things.


But hey! It's great getting older.


xx

bigbulldog

dippy3103 wrote: »

Exactly that!!!! Just because somebody is of pension age, it does not make them more deserving than people of working age.

And that's your opinion still at least you can control to some degree what income you earn pensioners/disabled (some)cannot as there's is fixed,but if pensioners get a couple of pounds rise is that a major issue not really as there are other things in life to worry about.

missbiggles1

SandraScarlett wrote: »

Having read through this thread, please forgive me, but I am absolutely giddy with excitement wondering how to spend my new found wealth. I've just checked my Pensions letter, and I am to receive the grand total of £2.23 a week increase!


Shall I treat myself to a coffee out, once a week? Or use it wisely, and buy a few stamps? If I save it, it'll help fund my annual dentist bills, or the creams I buy to relieve the pain in my arthritic legs and arms. :j


I need new glasses, and, due to my advancing years, and the aches and pains, I'm unable to do various jobs that involve climbing a step-ladder, so have to employ tradesmen to do these things.


But hey! It's great getting older.


xx

Don't forget, after tax that's £1.75!

FBaby

Exactly that!!!! Just because somebody is of pension age, it does not make them more deserving than people of working age

Nobody DESERVES benefits, and if people get this idea out of their mind, our society would be better off as a whole. However, it is reasonable that if you get a cut of your income taken out each month and you're being told by the higher powers that some of it will go towards your pension after retirement, you would indeed expect this to happen.

Most people are now paying towards an occupational pension because we are told there is no guarantee that we will get state pension. That's bad enough, but at least I don't have to worry that this pot of money will instead go towards those on benefits who think they deserve it more than me.

bigbulldog

FBaby wrote: »

Nobody DESERVES benefits

What utter tosh.!!!

FBaby wrote: »

but at least I don't have to worry that this pot of money will instead go towards those on benefits who think they deserve it more than me.

And they probably do deserve more than you.

Mersey_2

FBaby wrote: »

Nobody DESERVES benefits, and if people get this idea out of their mind, our society would be better off as a whole. However, it is reasonable that if you get a cut of your income taken out each month and you're being told by the higher powers that some of it will go towards your pension after retirement, you would indeed expect this to happen.

I agree that representation without taxation is almost as bad as taxation without representation as we had over a century ago.


However, an individual who has worked for eg x years and becomes unemployed is CLEARLY deserving of JSA.


Hence, it's called Contributions-based JSA.


I agree the others are 'trigger' benefits for children or cold weather and so on and you could restrict those as is planned.


It's important to combat fraud; but ATOS and the one-size-fits-all bureaucracy failed [too numerous to mention but they asked an amputee in Liverpool whether he had recovered from his injury: hence the answer, no my leg hasn't grown back] as has the DWP/JCP with sanctions. We just can't seem to 'do' big IT projects in this Country - well not in the public sector anyway.

Mersey_2

In other news, the House of Lords has again defeated the Government over its plans to cut ESA weekly rates to bring them in line with JSA rates.