Winter Fuel Payment

[Notch7]

The Triple lock ensures pensioners, are kept at the Status Quo, keeping them as some of the poorest paid pensioners in Europe.

Tories have been in power for most of the last 45 years.

 

[Notch7]

In work benefits hold back social mobility

Wealth inequality holds back social mobility

 

[JohnD]

The Triple lock ensures pensioners, are kept at the Status Quo, keeping them as some of the poorest paid pensioners in Europe.

That is not true.

It is a ratchet mechanism that winches them upwards compared to people who are not pensioners.

Other poor or disabled people fare worse.

 

[Trazor]

That is not true.

It is a ratchet mechanism that winches them upwards compared to people who are not pensioners.

Other poor or disabled people fare worse.

Pensioners quite obviously need another mechanism, to get a decent equivalent European pension.

Dead people fare worse, than the poor or disabled.

 

[JohnD]

Dead people fare worse

They don't mind.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

In work benefits hold back social mobility

Yes. Shows how low paid some people are

 

[gas112]

Wealth inequality holds back social mobility

on yer bike

 

[Mottie]

It is a ratchet mechanism that winches them upwards compared to people who are not pensioners.

They will all be one, eventually. They won’t be complaining then.

 

[transam]

As dire as it is

One needs to look at the bigger picture over this winter fuel allowance caper