Regarding Fuel allowance. Pensioners should get this regardless of their income or savings. My father is 80 years old and has worked from the age of 14, set up his own business at 16 until he retired. He has savings and lives off the interest but everytime something unexpected comes up he has to eat into those savings therefore not earning as much interest so his quality of living is decreasing at the same time. When my Mum died he contacted the council about his Council Tax. They gave him a 25% discount because he is on his own.Think about it, he has lost 50% of his income {my mums pension} but he still has to pay 75% of the original amount
As for housing benefits, don't even get me started. We went to the Council last year because my eldest son {nearly 21} did not want to move here with us and as there is no way on this earth that he could afford a mortgage we went to put him on the housing list.He is a clean living boy who has worked and studied to gain more qualifications in his work since leaving school. The first thing he was told was how unusual it is for someone to go into their offices who is in full time work. The second thing he was told was that they could house him in a hostel {over my dead body} as due to the fact that he had not just been released from prison or was not in a drug re-hab programme there was very little chance of him getting council accomodation. He now lives with my out-laws.
Regarding disability, don't judge people who claim disability because you can't physically see their disability. I claim disability but to look at me you would SEE nothing 'disabled about me'. I can walk, talk and hold a Voddy and Coke without any problems whatsoever
, but there are many things that I have to do in every day life that cause me pain and distress and will do for the rest of my life. People who claim disability or invalidity benefits will have gone through medicals with Social Security doctors and have to continue to do so on a regular basis while continuing to claim.
Finally one of the reasons I moved from the yUK was because immigrants who had been given council housing in surrounding Boroughs to mine where being given upto 75,000 pounds towards buying their own properties if they gave up their council property. And guess what area they were moving to
I asked many a councillor when they knocked at my door during local elections to give me 75,000 to move out
I knew once I got started I wouldn't be able to stop - Sorry
and seem to manage many other normal activities.
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