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Originally Posted by MargaretR
I worked for 35 years at DWP.
Administration of means tests is expensive, and when comparatively low payouts (child benefit, winter fuel) are involved, the savings from identifying the people who won't qualify, are cancelled out by the cost of means testing them.
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For heavens sake we have things like computers these days, I actually think people should have to apply for cold weather payments, with the parameters set out, I can't actually see a millionaire or somebody on a very high pension income (and their are a lot of those) actually applying for this benefit knowing they aint a snowballs chance of getting it, or why would they want to, maybe if this was more fairer those in genuine need might even get a bit more