Financial Help For The Elderly

[Shutpa]

Friends boiler has broken down and cannot be repaired. She has been quoted £1800 for a new one but says that that amount is beyond her means. Do any of you guys know if there is financial help available to the over 60s in these circumstances?

 

[kevplumb]

might be worth asking help the aged or ca

 

[Shutpa]

ca

"ca"?

 

[EddieM]

Citizens Advice

 

[Deleted member 105431]

try warmfront, they offer grants upto 2700 quid for pensioners and those on benefits.

 

[gas4you]

There is some sort of help available through Help the Aged. I have been contacted by them in the past for work.

They tend to get various 'grants' or help from organisations that I've never heard of. You may find, as in my case, the total for the work came via about 4 or 5 differents cheques made out directly to the installer for the quoted price.

 

[bengasman]

Chances are these so called poor elderly live in a mortgage free house and can get a 5% credit line in about 3 phone calls, that makes 2 advantages I don't have.
For those that really are not that well off, a couple of calls to the council will do the job.

 

[namsag]

Yeah heaven forbid someone who has worked all there lives and may not have cash readily avialable now will claim what they are perfectly entitled to.

 

[gas4you]

Chances are these so called poor elderly live in a mortgage free house and can get a 5% credit line in about 3 phone calls, that makes 2 advantages I don't have.
For those that really are not that well off, a couple of calls to the council will do the job.

Why are you so against people in need getting help BG? They will all have to provide checkable info on the financial situation before they get anything.

We will all be old and possibly need help one day. I personally have no problem with elderly, such as this post, getting help. I infact I gain from it, as it increases my workload and I like the feeling of thinking I have helped someone. I always want to treat people as I would expect my mother to be treated.

I often spend 1/2 an hour or so calling different agencies on behalf of any elderly or infirm that are worried about letters they canot understand, that they receive. If one cant find it in ones self to give a bit of help now and again, I find it quite sad and a damning endictment of todays society

Just for the record, I absolutely hate all do gooders as well, so I am far from one of those

 

[namsag]

Dave do you not know that bengas hands back all his child benefit and tax credits because surely with high principles regards people getting benefits he would not keep something he is perfectly entitled to because he already has some money.

 

[kevplumb]

just remember the old

made us lot

 

[TonyW2]

just remember the old

made us lot

And some of us have lived to regret it!

(signed B*********'s dad.)

 

[bengasman]

Dave do you not know that bengas hands back all his child benefit and tax credits because surely with high principles regards people getting benefits he would not keep something he is perfectly entitled to because he already has some money.

No benefits whatsoever on this side, nor tax credits or any of that.

I am all for giving help to people who NEED it, and those should get more than they get at the moment. The obvious reason being that too many that don't really need it, do get it.

Most disgusting example I have come across in a long time was an old boy last year, guess he was close to 80, who got 57 quid a week for a life of hard work.
Poor bloke lived, ate and slept in one room as that was all he could afford to keep warm.
I don't blame people who take what is offered, I blame a government that has created a new law every single day of the week for as long as they have been in power, leaving those that know how to play the system in million pound houses without ever having done a day's work, and those that don't know how to play it are left in real poverty.

 

[Richard C]

Yea sod the old, right bunch of bloody parasites they are; worked hard all their life, planned their finances very carefully & would you believe that some even have savings put by which were supposed to eak out the carp pension they get but have paid for all their lives; thankfully, their not worth much now either.

Euthanase the lot of em as soon as they hit 65 I say; or even aged 60, then they will be even less trouble & may still have some savings left that can be appropriated to pay off their kids negative equity mortgages!

 

[bengasman]

...worked hard all their life, planned their finances very carefully & would you believe that some even have savings put by which were supposed to eak out the carp pension they get but have paid for all their lives; thankfully, their not worth much now either...

Probably unintended, but you actually bring up a good example.

Hundreds of thousands of pensioners who did not earn a whole lot but were careful with there money and have a private pension that lifts them just above the minimum, get little or nothing apart from their miserly state pension, because of the way benefits for the elderly are worked out.
If you got something above the minimum, you get pittance from this government.

If you never bothered to save anything, but you learned what to fill out on which form, you can rake it in regardless of your age.