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Originally Posted by jaysay
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
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So instead of the computer
automatically adding winter fuel payments to accounts according to the age of the person in the database, you intend to
employ people to examine applications and input data.
There will be additional costs of detecting fraud of the people who lied on their application.