Winter Fuel Letter

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baguio said:
1. Did your parents receive the winter fuel allowance when they reached retirement age? Answer: Nope
2. Why did you become of retirement age assuming that there would be such thing as a winter fuel allowance when the answer to question 1. Was Nope ?
3. Why should paying your bills be the responsibility of others who are also struggling in life but working hard to bring up children and pay for houses that are proportionally more expensive than your house was?
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You sir would make a great chancellor of the exchequer , and a great pal for Rachel Reves ,
 
baguio said:
I planned so am actually quite looking forward to it. The kids will have left home (They better had). The mortgage will have been paid off. The OA pension plus two others will be coming in (One probably being Civil Service).
Just need my heath to stay good so that I can spend it all! :rofl:

"Interesting to note that Civil Service pensions seem to be somewhat overly generous but why wouldn't they be?"
We all have a choice. If you can't beat them.........
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Er... when I left school there were 3million unemployed, locally there were 120 school leavers per vacancy, after a protracted spell on the dole the only option was to become self-employed, and like many others this meant low wages once all the bills were paid. And then there was my mortgage which at one stage hit 22% interest, remember those days? Like other self-employed people there was no such thing as a private pension, nor any surplus funds to pay one anyway. However , I paid my taxes and made sure that I had the requisite 35 years worth of NI contributions, as it transpires a huge mistake. Had I defaulted on just a few years worth I would receive a slightly smaller state pension which would be more than offset by the huge raft of welfare benefits that I would have qualified for, and not just winter fuel allowance either!
I suppose the moral of the story is lead a bone-idle feckless existence and the state will provide you with a good living in old age, whilst those who have led a productive but frugal existence will be financial punished by this socialist government to pay for it.
 
What I love about civil service and academic types is that they think in very simplistic terms. They like to dial out of existence the "grey" areas. The world to them is black or white.
They are right and you are wrong.
Sad little feckers really.
One day though as per all of us the **** will hit their fan also and their world also will turn very very grey very very quickly.
Good luck to them I says.
 
Smellydog said:
What I love about civil service and academic types is that they think in very simplistic terms. They like to dial out of existence the "grey" areas. The world to them is black or white.
They are right and you are wrong.
Sad little feckers really.
One day though as per all of us the **** will hit their fan also and their world also will turn very very grey very very quickly.
Good luck to them I says.
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Nothing like tarring over 0.5 million people with the same brush is there? Most of whom have absolutely nothing to do with the winter fuel allowance.
If you’re not bitter about the winter fuel allowance you’re sure as hell bitter about something.
Get a grip of yourself and cheer up. Compared with how some people are living right now you have it very easy.
 
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timbrayford said:
Er... when I left school there were 3million unemployed, locally there were 120 school leavers per vacancy, after a protracted spell on the dole the only option was to become self-employed,
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Utter Horlicks. You could have joined the military for a start.
 
timbrayford said:
Its not really the point but wait until you get there and see things from a different perspective. Interesting to note that Civil Service pensions seem to be somewhat overly generous but why wouldn't they be?
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I don't know what the civil service pension pays. Perhaps you could tell us what someone who is now earning a lower wage like say £40K and has worked for the government their whole life can expect to receive at 67? However, I do know that the pay verses a comparable job for private companies is less. Swings and roundabouts me thinks.
 
Union backed public sector pay rises and gold plated pensions have to be paid somehow. As do the 15000 Albanian criminals we entertain at his majesty’s pleasure….to say nothing of the generational families that have never worked , and mostly seem to be north of Watford….
Take from the hardworking and successful and give to the masses…and we’re gonna see more of this
 
There are many land owners that claim subsidies when they don't really need it.
There are also millions being made in RHI schemes that benefit no one or anything!

God bless the civil services.
 
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