Winter fuel allowance for pensioners re-instated 🤗

brewerdave

Even tho my total "income" will be over £35k , I'm not going to opt out.- I'd rather pay it back over 12 months.
 I have little faith in HMRC - their systems are already crumbling under the strain of these various changes, and I await the screams of those who opt out when the WFA gets clawed back anyway !

GibbsRule_No3.

brewerdave said:

Even tho my total "income" will be over £35k , I'm not going to opt out.- I'd rather pay it back over 12 months.
 I have little faith in HMRC - their systems are already crumbling under the strain of these various changes, and I await the screams of those who opt out when the WFA gets clawed back anyway !

I think I will do the same, especially as it says 'To opt out of ALL future WFA payments'. I might be earning above this year but I won't in years to come, so how hard will it be to opt back in? 

Albermarle

Could be that some better off pensioners, having previously said they did think they should get the WFA, might opt out on moral grounds.
Also would be a good route to do some virtue signalling at a dinner party ( at relatively low cost ).

NickPoole

Is "household" teh same as "address"? My father-in-law get WFA and lives in our loft (gives us none of it even though we pay the bills) but I've now turned 66 and get state pension. Is he considered my household (I assume he must be) so he will get £100 and so will I but mine will get clawed back by tax code (or I could cancel through as yet unrevealed mechanism)

Silvertabby

NickPoole said:

Is "household" teh same as "address"? My father-in-law get WFA and lives in our loft (gives us none of it even though we pay the bills) but I've now turned 66 and get state pension. Is he considered my household (I assume he must be) so he will get £100 and so will I but mine will get clawed back by tax code (or I could cancel through as yet unrevealed mechanism)

Same boiler?

Dazed_and_C0nfused

NickPoole said:

Is "household" teh same as "address"? My father-in-law get WFA and lives in our loft (gives us none of it even though we pay the bills) but I've now turned 66 and get state pension. Is he considered my household (I assume he must be) so he will get £100 and so will I but mine will get clawed back by tax code (or I could cancel through as yet unrevealed mechanism)

It already exists.

https://www.gov.uk/winter-fuel-payment/report-change-circumstances