DWP Finds 100,000 Pensioners May Be Pushed into Poverty

[@TrevorTaylor-jk3ng]

I dont need pushing into poverty im already in it

[@jonpearson114]

Now let's talk about young families already in poverty

[@sup5356]

politics and the civil service is failing absolutely everyone

[@julieallen-s7k]

& homeless

[@charliemoore2551]

It is not a question of either or. There should be NO poverty in one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Period.

[@jackx4311]

"DWP Finds 100,000 Pensioners May Be Pushed into Poverty . . . " *and Reeves couldn't give a flying $$$$.*

[@TheresaWhite-y5i]

@@jackx4311 and the system is being improved to identify people who need this and don’t claim.

[@pompeypops57]

Vote them in and all they do is look after themselves

[@catherinegriessel56]

Of course she's couldn't, her and the rest of them, no matter what party all doing very nicely thank you

[@edgarallen645]

The Labour government insists all pensioners will be better off with the £470 which we are going to get anyway under the triple lock. However, I have lost my £200 winter fuel allowance, I will pay an additional £103 in income tax, my vehicle excise duty for my small car has doubled by £220, my council tax will increase by £150, this lot alone adds up to £673 back to the government, so please explain how I am better off.

[@maureenhollison6261]

AND TAX WILL COME AS LIMIT IS NOT RISING!

[@TomTomicMic]

....and a few hundred quid in higher energy bills also!?!

[@PeterPete]

Get rid of your car and use your free bus pass, there you go, I've saved you money 👍

[@edgarallen645]

@@PeterPete Clearly you are clueless about rural bus services.

[@stanthesteelguitarman8228]

Actually, most pensioners are old enough to only qualify for the OLD State Pension, which will rise by just £350 per year, not £470 which is the amount applying only to the NEW pension.

[@davidlangthorne1858]

why hit the pesioners when the power companies should have been hit with a windfall tax instead

[@jackx4311]

Because pensioners are an easy target.

[@cal401]

Cause power companies have the resources and money to fight it.

[@childofthe60s100]

Because bullies always attack those not big enough to fight back! The power companies, with their government minister share-holders are BIG - so will not be attacked.

[@Coopz1969]

Liebour are just punishing people they know that don't vote for them

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

@@cal401 As well as accountants and economists who are considerably smarter than Rachel from Accounts.

[@GaryBurdenuik-g8y]

Will the government be liable for any deaths, THEY SHOULD BE HELD TO ACCOUNT.

[@mariapsaila-k3l]

Why Reeves she is still getting her fuel allowances she don’t need it she is getting money from her rented house and her wage whatever she gets from the tax payers money she is getting double than £300 I think she is disgusting

[@TheresaWhite-y5i]

@@mariapsaila-k3l and Rishi was a millionaire .

[@Discodave007licencedtothrill.]

Reeves is too young to get the winter fuel allowance, you 🤡 Now Theresa May was eligible for HER winter fuel allowance, that she doesn’t need. May isn’t the same age as Reeves. 😉🤭

[@georginahiggs7590]

​@TheresaWhite-y5i so is Starmy multi millionaire

[@Discodave007licencedtothrill.]

@ So is Farage. What’s your point? 🤷‍♂️

[@Fortune-z1i]

@@Discodave007licencedtothrill.Are you not aware that all MPs can claim thousands for their fuel consumption in their second homes subsidised by the general public?

[@Soarific]

All of the pensioners should head to France, rock up here on a boat without their passports and they will be given 5 start hotels and eventually a house.

[@joprocter4573]

Ah but digital dwp law now ordered the pensioners x to show phota ID..STATEMENT.PROVE SPENDING. DIGITAL INVASION OF PRIVACY

[@TheresaWhite-y5i]

@@Soarific lead the charge le Pen would love you.

[@julieallen-s7k]

we cant say any thing against "THE NEWCOMERS "if we do we are "far right thugs/terrorists etc " the fact is we are second class citizens in our own country whilst they are treated like first class

[@charliemoore2551]

It may be a low percentage that actually falls into what is officially called poverty but there are many many more who will suffer real hardship. It's an absolute disgrace.

[@TheresaWhite-y5i]

@@charliemoore2551 facts and numbers help. There are at least 13,000,000 pensioners in UK and there will many who simply don’t need it.

[@charliemoore2551]

@@TheresaWhite-y5i Indeed. But many more who do. It doesn't include me this year because, at 68, I'm still working. Next year I will be just outside the pension credit limit and it will mean eating less or turning off the heating. The matter-of-fact callousness of people like you scares me more than the Tories.

[@TheresaWhite-y5i]

@ pragmatic and selfless not callous !. I don’t want benefits I don’t need I’d rather people who need them get them and a lot more . I hear you are angry and upset but paying me money won’t help you. Start campaigning instead of complaining.

[@charliemoore2551]

@@TheresaWhite-y5i If you want to make sure that everyone who needs a benefit gets it, you make it universal. That's been a principle of social policy since Beveridge. And it's also well known that means testing nearly always results in people who ARE entitled not receiving it. Many hundreds of thousands of people will suffer because of this spiteful and badly thought-out measure. Some will die. And by the time the extra burden on A & E and social care is covered, there will be very little money saved. It's nothing but a political measure made with the intention of making this Tory reserve team look like it's able to to make "tough" decisions.

[@lat1419]

​@charliemoore2551 millions will suffer hardship. As anyone with more than £12k pays tax, the "better off" pensioners already do pay! Maybe increasing the state pension to include the winterfuel all8wance would be fairer?

[@paulbird3235]

As a 70yr old who has only ever voted Labour, I admit this government is a complete embarrassment. But the real embarrassment WILL be at the next election......

[@barriewilliams4526]

Agreed. They will be out of power for generations to come.

[@michaelellis7326]

You well may be fright !!!

[@dogzero1]

Pathetic. Lets see what we are like after 4-5 years. No matter what though, I would never betray my labour working mans roots.

[@barriewilliams4526]

@@dogzero1 Labour has not been the party of the working man for decades. Wake up!

[@dogzero1]

@@barriewilliams4526 Maybe not but they are still better and more morally correct than your Reform or Tory right wing parties. So get lost racist.

[@JanetStevens-q5t]

Saving for my funeral has pushed me over the threshold for winter fuel payment.

[@lbunnygordon1133]

Millions have no funeral except a paupers grave..through no fault of their own...the whole crux is lowsst wages possibke for working classes for what must be 25 years and now even lower..

[@ireneclarke2226]

No but they’ve got money for weapons for Ukraine and following Biden in to a war that the people don’t want. If Trump was in all this wouldn’t have happened. War mongers . Then when Trump becomes president he will have one budget mess to clean up after Biden has toddled off home to retire .

[@210195111]

Ask him about Southport why don't you?

[@mjl2904]

What has that got to do with the price of tea in China? You are on the wrong video

[@julieallen-s7k]

please enlighten southport ?

[@adriennemeager297]

It's not too late to move the boundaries slightly to include the oldies who are a few pounds over the cut off £221.

[@NecessaryDramaAddictionNDA]

His ego is too great

[@stevewiles7132]

If it worked properly, if you were a bit over, then they should just reduce what you get by that amount.

[@mikeowen1192]

Starmer stays out of the country to avoid all the criticism there's a lot to come out about this dodgy liar I think his day's are numbered,

[@childofthe60s100]

Doubtful - but a world without Starmer, is a comforting dream.

[@lsmith9249]

@milkowen1192 l think he will be around for a long time, but he would be replaced by someone as bad

[@Denburyfarm]

@@lsmith9249 God for bid, Reeves maybe, even worse the clown Rayner

[@br5380]

@@childofthe60s100 You no doubt supported Johnson, Truss & Sunak - which one do you want back in?

[@SilverbackMatt01]

When you see lefty Maguire turning on Labour you know the party is finished with the people!

[@AlanHill-t8r]

Spot on sir

[@SilverbackMatt01]

@@AlanHill-t8r Says a thousand words 👍

[@TeddyG-y6s]

Surprised me too, I’ve always regarded him as one of Labours most loyal disciples

[@SilverbackMatt01]

@@TeddyG-y6s Yep! …..It seems the writing is on the wall for Starmer, although Labour will fester on for 5 more long years.

[@TheresaWhite-y5i]

No Tory supporters minded pushing people into poverty the past 14 years so spare me the Crocodile Tears.

[@andrewamidala]

My other half and I both work in reasonable jobs but since the plandemic we have had less and less. We do not go out to eat, we only use our cars for travel to work. I cannot remember the last time we went on holiday. We are so scared that the government will find more and more excuses to take our money that we will through no fault of our own lose our house! This is no way to live and no hope for the future!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@tomboore8357]

STOP THE BOATS!

[@waynesimon2425]

Stop invading and stealing the wealth out of other countries..

[@TheresaWhite-y5i]

@@tomboore8357 too late you voted Brexit no Dublin Agreement ! . Stopping the boats is like stopping the Mafia we need coordinated action BUT we don’t have many friends now.

[@julieallen-s7k]

he wont stop them there his only supporters

[@user-ca3sp7er1h]

When did the DWP start caring about people

[@alien4422]

Exactly they spend their time terrorising the sick, disabled and poor.

[@julieallen-s7k]

the fact most dwp staff get paid only minimum wage & still have targets to reach before they get paid bonus

[@user-ca3sp7er1h]

@@alien4422 Absolutely

[@alien4422]

@@julieallen-s7k Some are graduates they won't be on the minimum wage. I ended up talking to a guy who had a masters. He had the nerve to ask me if I was really ill and added you can tell me and what you tell me will be kept just be between us. Yeah right!

[@oeilgris]

DO NOT TOUCH OUR ELDERS!!!!!!!!! why do they not understand that???!!!!

[@derekmorse8171]

because they never hit politicians pensions.

[@TomTomicMic]

They will, come the upcoming elections have no fear!?!

[@noramartin96]

Because we are no longer of any use as wage slaves .We are nothing but a burden according to Starmer

[@NecessaryDramaAddictionNDA]

They’ve been hitting the most vulnerable with every consecutive government. It’s truly truly pathetic

[@joprocter4573]

Dwp has issued orders to show ID.ADDRESS.RECEIPTS OF PENSION SPENT ON

[@PINKFL0YD-s2h]

I'd be a pensioner now if rhedy had not cheated me by moving the goal posts. Sat in my freezing flat - 0C. Going to be a long cold winter again. There's a huge amount of people in my position. I'm not angry, just very sad to know that my future is not worth living for.

[@partofthiscrazyworld1512]

I am in the same position, nearly retiring. I have always worked my whole life. Only had time out to nurse my husband and Mum. Never had anything given. I work in NHS band 3 and am currently in fuel poverty, it's freezing now. I have to budget per day and cannot go over that. I dare not put the heating on. Poverty here.

[@KaysFantasy]

From Rachel Thieves to Rachel Reaper 💀

[@John-q2y9k]

If you’ve already got money you’re still entitled to you’re pension you’ve worked for it

[@TheresaWhite-y5i]

@@John-q2y9k of course you are. But not Pension Credit if you are over a certain threshold.

[@optimisticgal]

Do they still get their second home heating paid via expenses?

[@SusanWilliams-fg1ch]

Oh yes😢

[@annealbrecht396]

Disgraceful if they do

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Worse government ever.

[@barbarajones9385]

@evola Except for the last one.

[@user-ca3sp7er1h]

Which one ?

[@jasoncooper1728]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@neilbower9052]

not as bad as any of the tory ones you voted for over the past 14 years

[@alien4422]

@@neilbower9052 Less than 30% of the population voted Tory.

[@viviengregory9002]

It's going to get worse we need Labour out now.

[@andrewwatts2443]

so you forgot the last 14 years. So far there is little difference between the removed government and this new one.

[@alien4422]

I'm very happy that the Conservatives are not in power.

[@ireneclarke2226]

Time for reform as the Labour and conservatives are both no good.

Cry harder

[@jdizzle1779]

The Labour Tory duopoly needs to end. Neither are fit for purpose and would be fired in any organisation for poor performance

[@Baz63]

the question is simple. Why does the government think that satiating the greed of train drivers is more important than protecting law abiding pensioners. Why is the former more important than the latter? The harrowing tales of pensioners calling in describing their worries should be taped and Reeves and Starmer should be forced to listen to every one of them and then answer the above question.

[@ElaineClark-e2t]

Why does france get 50% more pension than UK ??

[@lbunnygordon1133]

Really they make out we re so superior here..they want us in poverty and dying off. As if anyone can live on lowest wage or laughable 900 to 12k a year ..a room costs 800 too 1k whatd left to pqy food let alone anything else.. am just above the tax threshold it s all cleverly calculated so will end up in another room in hmo with v dangerous addicts criminals etc and will die from no heating..thats ehat you get ftom grafting all your life...

[@Dollie-f2c]

In France their EDF electricity prices are half of what we have to pay in the UK!!!

[@dogzero1]

Because they have a more socialist government. Like our Labour should be.

[@coderider3022]

Pay more tax than us.

[@jagman999]

They have paid more tax over the decades. The UK gave tax cuts workers back in they to those who are now retired. Good times have been had

[@sbalmer132]

Why didn’t they just remove it from the higher tax payers which no one would have objected to.

[@neilbower9052]

i suggest you actually read up on the new labour plans for farmers inheritance tax rather than listening to gobshites on the media

[@TomTomicMic]

​@@neilbower9052 He's on about Winter fuel payments though the subject of this video, Farmers and their community can look after themselves and they most probably have the majority support over the government who are useless and I don't want to read any of their policies, I just want most of them overturned by the next government!?!

[@stanthesteelguitarman8228]

I agree that the right way and the fairest way would have been to simply remove the Winter Fuel Allowance from the higher tax payers, pensioners who can afford to live without it, but this would not have brought in enough money into the Government's coffers. It is always the majority of us who pay in the most and receive the least back!

[@paulbird3235]

Exactly!. I think they are afraid to tackle the wealthy.

[@TF-h9z]

Simply because it would cost more to properly means test it to determine who doesn't need it than it costs just to give it to all pensioners.

[@Lordknightuk]

I am on the old state pension, I have one meal a day, and heating for 1 hour - all my savings gone, and my money lasts for 2 weeks if I'm lucky - unless I can find an answer I'm sunk..

[@terrapyn99]

Starver's Labour has out-Toried the Tories with its attacks on the poor.

[@TheresaWhite-y5i]

@@terrapyn99 Not all Pensioners are poor. A lot are much better off than their children/ grandchildren will ever be. The Tories have been in power for 14 years what did they do for the poor.

[@terrapyn99]

@@TheresaWhite-y5i The Tories are renowned for keeping working people in poverty. The Labour Party was formed to support workers, not corporate donors.

[@janetmalcolm6191]

@@terrapyn99 How do you work that out? They bullied the poorest continually. Councils gave tents to the homeless which were then removed leaving people tentless as well! Plus beating down on people claiming PIP. Took more to take people to court than pay out! Truss was going to remove cancer treatment to save money. Not sure how that first remark can be made.

[@ReveredWizardBob]

No, the damage was done ages ago, but the Tories hid it by sky rocketing debt and not funding and public services. Now Labour has to make up a new budget to get all public services running smoothly again and everyone complains that it's Labours fault...

[@robertwalker1742]

I just wish someone would ask these clowns at no 10, why have they stopped OAP payments and still pay migrants.Make sure they answer. Keep asking the same question until they explain.

[@TheresaWhite-y5i]

@@robertwalker1742 they have answered perhaps you need to re read the answers. By the way Brexit caused this we can’t send people back to France - Dublin Agreement cancelled.

[@DeniseFord-d6m]

The ppl who arrive on boat’s now get private medical attention while we have to wait weeks for an appointment or over 12 hours in A and E 😤😤😤😤😤😤

[@TheresaWhite-y5i]

@ well you can’t use the NHS until you’ve been in Uk 6 months. Young people like these are have very little need for health services . Some refugees actually have MONEY and family here who support them. Brexit = no Dublin agreement .

[@danielwillis4706]

@@TheresaWhite-y5i Why are you missing the point and deflecting, who pays for the private medical attention then? Many pensioners would of died over the winter, the heating allowances although not huge helps with them being able to pay for food etc on of their pension. Let them all clap their hands (it will warm them up at least) until the increase.

[@lsmith9249]

They'd just talk BS,

[@caroleleather5551]

You can you talk about labour all you want, but actions are needed not words ,how do we get rid of them ???

[@martyndawson7484]

NO illegal immigrants will be pushed into poverty. Most pensioners would be ecstatic to have free everything!

[@jamesburke527]

its a bit late for the DWP to come out with figures now We should have had these figures before the Commons Vote.

[@adampigott8720]

Kevin has changed his tune. He was telling us that utopia was coming with Labour!!

[@TomTomicMic]

It is for public sector workers only! The trouble is they are the cost side of the ledger, the private sector (The bit that got clobbered under Labour) is the one which produces growth, so Rachael Reeves is showing her actual level of economic acumen rather than the one listed in her "original" CV!?!

[@paulleigh7792]

Kevin’s having a lightbulb moment. He’s been wrong all his life. What a cross to bear. Be careful what you wish for should be the take from this!

[@soniacookson3277]

Pensioners will never vote for labour ever again

[@janetmalcolm6191]

I am a pensioner. I will. Tories were going to take away the triple lock. They have already said they might means test the pension.

[@jonburgess3614]

Winter fuel payments cut for the worst off. Prices are rising. Farmers are being driven to the wall without the inheritance tax. There will be food shortages and higher prices. This cold snap means nothing to labour politicians with their massive heating allowances. These Labour wasters wouldn’t last five minutes working on a farm in this weather.

[@lsmith9249]

and things will just get worse over the next 4 years,

[@AbigailBrown-wk7xl]

Pensioners are freezing to death. The weather has dropped to -4 C the pensioners have worked all there life and paid there taxes . Now they are in poverty and are suffering. Every politician that allowed this should be ashamed of themselves

[@hankchinaski4075]

Classic Partridge at the end. Ahaa. Bravo Richard. Kevin actually said something today I agree with. Labour only got 20% of the vote, 2 of 10 of potential voters.

[@brianneedham7582]

That’s made up with dodge postal votes….

[@FredFox-m9v]

People who voted Labour, what did you expect. It has always been high gov. borrowing, high gov. spending, low growth, high gov. control over everybody's lives and jam tomorrow.

[@TheresaWhite-y5i]

@@FredFox-m9v look at economics it’s the opposite. BUT poor argument surely you don’t think we should borrow more to pay for a universal credit a lot of people don’t need.

[@FredFox-m9v]

@TheresaWhite-y5i no i don't, bring back work houses. I am nearly 66, self supporting all my life. I have always been worse off under labour. The current lot are a disaster as have been their political forebears in my memory. Get them out ! Labour - “jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day”.

[@TheresaWhite-y5i]

@ I’m 74 a woman so less well paid a lot of my life .Self Supporting until now and I get a State Benefit - the State Pension. . The Tories have been in power for most of my life - and yours- not Labour . So I’m pleased you’ve experienced good times . I haven’t . Yes you are going to be worse off now post Brexit another Tory idea . People said they didn’t mind being poor if we were a sovereign nation . This is the new reality . As Labour says a long hard slog with no guarantees . At least I’ve got no grandchildren to worry about.

[@mjl2904]

Andrew Pierce was very loud about benefits for pensioners (Winter Fuel Allowance) and the state pension going up 4.1%, yet was very quiet about benefits for working age people such as child benefit and carers allowance only going up 1.7% being wiped out by inflation so they will be worse off than today next year

[@lbunnygordon1133]

Only the peolple wuth huge inheritances are able to live here aling with hedge funders and upper class type roles..the rest of us are like peasants in a feudal system. The min wage should be 34k as that s what Sunak claimed was av wage so pay it inc to pensioners....

[@kevinsimpson-dw6vu]

@@lbunnygordon1133 Or set up your own business and pay your staff 34k minimum, how does that sound?

[@TheresaWhite-y5i]

@@mjl2904 Andrew Pierce us just a Tory lover he honestly doesn’t care about anyone but Andrew Pierce . 13,000,000 pensioners in Uk at least and most don’t need it.

[@Stewartmac]

We have the lowest grade politicians and news outlets apart from GB news and talk radio this lot makes my ears bleed they think they are so right and so important

[@georgeoneill6942]

How many pensioners will die as a result of cutting the winter fuel allowance? How many children are in poverty because of the two child cap?

[@stones4879]

People shouldnt bring children into the world unless they can afford to pay for those children themselves. Why should people get money i pay in tax for their kids when i can't afford to have my own kids?

[@TheresaWhite-y5i]

@@stones4879 because they grow up and work and pay taxes and pay for our pensions and NHS when we can no longer. We have a labour shortage and in case you haven’t noticed UK have turned their faces from immigration. Also nature isn’t kind to us we are Programmed to reproduce . If we can’t afford children in the country perhaps we can’t afford 13,000,000 pensioners?

[@julieallen-s7k]

@@stones4879 by that same tooken people shouldnt have pets or expensive cars etc

[@raymondrichards4888]

Don't confuse Phoney Blair's "New Labour (EU)" following John Major (EU) with the honourable Labour of the post 1945 days.

[@Philipwaltho]

Why save for funeral anyway when you go you go

[@lynnalborough9672]

@Philipwaltho the government can burn me... 🔥

[@christopher554]

@@Philipwaltho no my mum and dad had nothing nor did I. ,they got buried both together.

[@julieallen-s7k]

@@christopher554 millions like me live alone & will die alone

[@derekrobsondirectbuildersl5863]

I already have friends who are starving we certainly can't take anymore.

[@peeg09]

The truth is the energy company's will continue to put their prices up. The government will put up taxes for energy, food etc...But the price increases will be put on working people sadly.

[@keithwilkins1437]

They must be punished for not voting Labour and finding fault . Anywhere else like that ?

[@joeyjebouskie6632]

If you think we should borrow money to pay for it, then make that argument. Eventually debt interest payments will be more than the NHS and every other department, all of our tax will go to servicing debt, not servicing us

[@IanScout1]

Elderly are an easy target,but revenge will come next election,it’s disgraceful we should uphold our Elders.

[@childofthe60s100]

Speaking as an "elder" - "WE" are an easy target, a diffuse group that have no coherent representation. Try this vile trick with people still working and the Unions would rise up in support. "Let's screw the elderly - they can't do anything about it!" We can hardly expect "Age Concern", to rise-up, to challenge the creepy (and getting creepier) Starmer and his uncouth, undereducated bimbo side-kick and his totally clueless and characterless chancellor, for whom the "humanity transplant" failed. This clueless chancellor and her Bully Boy boss do not give a damn about the older generation, who have provided, for their generation and for that of THEIR children. We are a soft target who are easy-pickings for a government with no empathy, with the population - and no sympathy for those, with financial problems - despite those people having contributed to the public purse throughout their working lives. Now "it's our money" is their mentality! They, the corrupt, uncaring government, will heat their publicly sponsored second homes, travel First Class, receive inappropriate gifts, enjoy High Dining and all with no remorse or thought for other people. They will encourage unwelcome, ILLEGAL immigrants (CRIMINALS - by definition), feed them, house them, whilst ignoring the "elders" who generated the money, that they play games with. The money that is paying for these unwelcome "guests" (who are ruining the hotels). The corrupt politicians, will do whatever they wish with "their money" - but they will not give it (BACK!) to where it is most needed. The previous government were crooked, cheating liars but "this lot" - they are a grubby seedy group of self-serving narcissists who, THEY BELIEVE, can do no wrong. They are a disgusting blot on our political history. There has never been worse!

[@barbarap6201]

But £41000 pa + on-site NHS for an illegal. ……….

[@davidingram9042]

when is it going to get better.... I have been working for a rertail company in a warehouse on minimum wage for 20 years and i wam being laid off after christmas due to national insurence increase I am 60. Not redundancy just laid off Thank you labour My £750 mortgage is out the window so another homeless man due to hit the streets

[@neilbower9052]

there is help out there if you need it. all you have to do is ask. your first point of call should be Citizen's Advice, they will point you in the right direction. don't reply giving excuses, do it, if you want to save your house

[@lbunnygordon1133]

Please call debt line etc ..please get help...the fact you re 60 means you should get help... they cant leave you in street there s law... i m really feeling bad for you as know what lousy lay offlike well they called it redundancy. Got 2 month salary that was it!! ..there s the thing nothing ever shown up about the milluons put out of work and just jow hard it is to get anything else over 60...that enqbles even a rented room.

[@HomeGrownVeg]

Up to 100,000 pensioners in England and Wales will be forced into relative poverty by the end of the decade. Relative to the good times they had when we had Austerity??? Relative to what? Just asking.

[@davidkidd368]

Lets chase Reeves out of her role as an MP she is toast

[@pompeypops57]

I hope those labour mps are happy now all standing up cheering clapping on the descion to stop the winter fuel payments . I would like to know how they sleep at night when they still pick up there own 4000+ expenses .. on over 80.000 a year as well paid by taxpayers

[@Talboy-p4e]

Starmar not Brtish never was He scammed England House speaker should sack him from the parliament Not supposed to lie House speaker??????

[@paulyoung4422]

Unbelievably the Lady in charge of a Pensioner Action Group mentioned Pensioners getting £13,000 a year. Which country does she live in. It's £11, 500. For Pensioners getting the New Old Age Pension. ⛄⛄⛄👻

[@Zaphod-ef9yz]

And that's ONLY the state pension.. add all the private pensions, savings, the house worth hundreds of thousands, and the fact there is no rent or mortgage every month it is soon clear why they are on holiday all the time - loaded 😂😂

[@FredFox-m9v]

​@Zaphod-ef9yz you will find out when you get old, how silly a comment that was. Very few pensioners are well off.

[@lbunnygordon1133]

​@@FredFox-m9vi have zero...

[@BP-of5cp]

​@@Zaphod-ef9yznot many have savings. Instead you'll find how expensive their old homes are to heat, maintain, a boiler breaks and it's hundreds, roof leaks and it's thousands. You name it. If we spend X amount of money on gas to heat our home we need to take into consideration that we don't use heating when we go to work and many switch it off at bed time. They need to spend double because they're at home all the time and feel the cold a lot more. Getting old isn't fun and after a whole life of hard work no one should be in that situation.

[@chrisbronson5341]

What about the thousands already in poverty .

[@danh5637]

Imagine if the Tories had done half of this stuff. Kevin would be spitting feathers and foaming at the mouth.

[@JakeP-bb5hh]

You have GOT to vote reform. There is literally no other way.

[@JakeP-bb5hh]

@ Shakespeare is that you?

[@PaulW1954]

Tough decision .. tough for pensioners not MPs fuel allowance of £2000 for their first house plus £1500 for their second 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@adamcraig1468]

Rishi did try to warn you all

[@johnmccann1960]

I retire in less than 2 years, the future is looking bleak under Labour.

[@martyndawson7484]

How about parents take control over what their children look at? It is not the job of service providers. It is lazy abandonment of parental duties.

[@suemawson9575]

Who are these people who are seeing the "benefit" of Labour's policies?

[@mariac6751]

Train drivers and public servants

[@childofthe60s100]

They are called LABOUR POLITICIANS!!!

[@childofthe60s100]

@@mariac6751Do you HONESTLY believe that spin???????

[@mariac6751]

@childofthe60s100 public servants got above inflation pay rise and train drivers got 15% so unless that's another Labour lie , and there are many ! Then yes I do believe it

[@martyndawson7484]

MPs. Civil servants. Train drivers.

[@johncatto5019]

I won't hold my breath until things get better.

[@celticbreeze760]

Labour the party of chaos!!!

[@alien4422]

Conservatives the party of theft and incompetence.

[@Coopz1969]

Why would Mps even care as they don't even know what a bill looks like as its just another thing to put on their expenses form 😡😡

[@peterwatson3944]

Wealthy pensions are not dead weight .they are the people who got up each morning hail rain and snow to do a jod no one wanted to do ,paid their taxes and provide for their families and what was left provide for their old age. How dear you say dead weight their holding up the rest.

[@michael7286]

100, 000 Pensioners may/will be pushed into poverty. This is the number of pensioners in the present day that may/will be pushed into poverty, if this is the case then pensioners of the future may/will be pushed into poverty also, It's sounding very bleak. One thing is for sure, the politicians that sat in parliament and voted to take away the winter fuel payment from pensioners they will never be faced with poverty. Makes me feel sick to the core at the way pensioners are being mistreated. Great Britain 2024 -25 and beyond ☹️

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

But from the point of view of the Dear Leader and Rachel from Accounts, isn't it a win-win? So a few pensioners die? Fewer potential non-Labour voters, and less to pay out in pensions. Brilliant news for the public sector Labour core vote, isn't it?

[@steveb3060]

These media clowns alternate between reporting that "it's very cold" to "2024 is the hottest year on record". 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mickreaddin4979]

Two things can be true at the same time.

[@marcopalazzo9349]

​@@mickreaddin4979 I don't think you have grasped the idea of climate change.

[@beastieboy3926]

Now there`s an achievement to be proud of.Starmer and co need to go.

[@Jonnyshoot192]

Puntin Fires?=Russia DISAPPEARS.

[@GaryBurdenuik-g8y]

Why they talking about russia, WHO GIVES A S!!T IF IT GOING TO HAPPEN NOBODY WILL KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT, WE HAVE NO WAY SO BRING IT ON.

[@shamayialawson4855]

I will be forever grateful to you, you changed my entire life and I will continue to preach on your behalf for the whole world to hear you saved me from huge financial debt with just a small investment, thank you Shellane Maxwell

[@TengkuTony]

She is my family's personal broker and also a personal broker in many families I'm United States, she's a licensed broker and a FINRA AGENT in United states

[@mike-x3h7q]

The very first time we tried, we invested $1000 and after a week, we received $5500. That really helped us a lot to pay up our bills.

[@victor-g8i9g]

I'm new at this, please how can I reach her?

[@shamayialawson4855]

she's mostly on telegram, using her name

[@shamayialawson4855]

@shellanemaxwell

[@anilasharma2371]

What does this government have to say about cutting winter fuel just before winter hits those who are on streets and shoddy living conditions poor housing? The one who doesn't know or cannot apply for additional benefits? how a handful of people in government decide to cut winter fuel benefits which individuals could be entitled to ? This government has made the unwise decision at the wrong timing especially when people are struggling.

[@afaghclark5064]

i am 87 have disability caused by NHS and cancer, I have 3 pairs of warm socks, my toes are blue. I can send a photo. I also wear gloves. Next year I will be 6f or more under.

[@burchelwinkler9778]

Put ur heating on;

[@mickreaddin4979]

​@@burchelwinkler9778Is that serious advice you're offering?

[@burchelwinkler9778]

@@afaghclark5064 Yes;

[@lbunnygordon1133]

Contact help aged sone will step in there to help...

[@christopher554]

@@afaghclark5064 try living on a state pension

[@ZafarIqbal-jl8yq]

Ex British prime minister still gets £100000 .for just prime minister for few weeks ? Is this true please some body tell me thanks regards

[@rareoldschoolbreakbeathard7583]

starmer thinks all state pensioners are eligible for pension credits when their not, i know a bunch of state pensioners who are at bottom of state pension list and only on basic state pension of £230 a week who had their winter fuel allowence cut and have tried but can not claim pension credits because they are not eligible and never will be... but if your a pensioner who can claim pension credits your eligible for winter fuel allowence and you get £2900 a year more in pension credits

[@1aatlas]

When was the last election held in Ukraine?

[@mickreaddin4979]

Ffs... it's not just pensioners who are being affected.

[@derekmorse8171]

who else gets the "pensioners winter fuel allowance"?....I'm asking for a friend.

[@mjl2904]

@@derekmorse8171the OP is saying that it is not just pensioners struggling to pay for their heating and energy. There are people on low income who at best get 1-2% rise in pay if they get one and are poorer each year when inflation rises faster than their wages. At least pensioner’s buying power is protected as they get an above inflation rise each year due to the triple lock. With the price of energy I don’t think the difference between turning on or off the heating is £200 or £300 paid into your account. It would help but I get the sense the media are over sensationalising the situation meaning there are many pensioners that think they cannot turn on their heating because of the coverage

[@tomrigby7016]

Nobody is saying they are ?

[@TomTomicMic]

You are quite correct in your "misunderstanding" it's not just about pensioners, whole swathes of the private sector were hammered by the Labour communists while the public sector was rewarded this will not promote growth so it will get worse, however "at least" 4,000 excess deaths will be recorded in official documents this Winter by pensioners freezing in their own homes who have most probably paid tax all their lives (The ones who get pension credit and Winter fuel payments most probably did not pay tax all their lives for whatever reason, it's not a judgement!), it's seems a terrible price to make them pay but hey you are "entitled" to your opinion, its just seems wrong!?!

[@julieknights2728]

The trouble is a majority of pensioners are either too old or too ill to be able to do anything to help themselves. At least younger people can do extra work or get better paid jobs.

[@clivewalford3148]

How on earth can Joe Biden make any decision When he can’t even find the stage for a photo op

[@judithmorganjudyteen]

He doesn't make the decisions

[@markwilkie3677]

What's the figure for Scots pensioners?

[@sandrapierce4718]

Bring Sunak back. The country needs an economist in power. The economy was improving under Sunak, he just needed more time. Labour has no answers to provide, just blame

[@scapingby]

he was probably the most intelligent PM we've had, hard working too.

[@lbunnygordon1133]

Is that a joke..

[@joprocter4573]

Listen to digital confinements and dictatorship against pensioners..

[@Victormateo581]

¡¡Asombroso!! Dios finalmente había cambiado mi vida a través de la Señor Alejandro Benedetti . 1500 cada diez días. Dios es bueno 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@Victormateo581]

Hola soy de México 🇲🇽, ¿Cómo puedo contactar a Alejandro?

[@Victormateo581]

La información de contacto en el comentario es correcta, está disponible principalmente en Whats, Apk.👎

[@Victormateo581]

+1215

[@Victormateo581]

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[@Victormateo581]

9854

[@br5380]

If the loss of £6 per week will force them into "relative poverty", I think they're already in "relative poverty". Did these folk not put anything aside for their retirement?

[@MegaDeano1963]

Older people driven into poverty , random well off people give 7000 quid for heat pumps

[@Adam-uu5bw]

Kevin needs to go to a doctors and get checked out he clears his throat every 4 seconds.

[@mollybrown465]

These are my two favourite journalists. They talk common sense that normal people understand

[@paulburton9386]

That will be the same DWP who scrapped Tax Credits for working people and asked us to use the disaster that is Universal Credit instead.

[@derekmain9914]

Starmer and his cronies act like the Stasi in east Germany knowing that they have a majority in the commons

[@childofthe60s100]

Based on a turnout of around 30%! Doesn't that say that the system is totally ROTTEN?

[@jamesburke527]

Under the triple lock pensioners would have recieved the rise under whatever govrment

[@KenDignam]

Il never vote labour again

[@JanetStevens-q5t]

Most pensioners are still trying to save for their funeral which keep going up and then it takes you over the threshold for winter fuel payment .we can’t win.

[@geneytube18]

Investment in the new zones. Freeports, corporate zones, where corporations don't abide by laws of say Birmingham or Manchester.

[@cal401]

I honestly cant believe people voted labour 😂

[@Crouchy232323]

I love Sir Keir Starmer and overlooked the Saville stuff but it really is deteriorating and I speak on behalf of everyone here when I say that he must resign immediately for the sake of the country and the party

[@jillhornby5604]

Love Starmer,, wow cant believe you have said that, i despise him with a passion,

[@Crouchy232323]

@jillhornby5604 Starmer has destroyed the fascists, the old age pensioners, Palestine, the left, and if given enough time he will do the same to the farmers. What's not to like?

[@neilbower9052]

there was NO 'saville stuff', he had absolutely NOTHING to do with him or the stopped prosecution

[@Crouchy232323]

@neilbower9052 sorry, I meant Al Fayed

[@cindyfaulkner5725]

Parents need to keep a better eye on what their children are accessing, even smart phones can work without an internet connection, so don't let them have the ability to access any internet on their phone unless they are using WIFI at home, which can be controlled by the parents. You can also insist on open access to look at your child's use of the internet

[@childofthe60s100]

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