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Originally Posted by kestrelx
Another reason, mentioned on the Politics show this morning - wealthy pensioners will still get free bus passes, winter fuel payments and TV licences even if they have 1,000's of pounds in the bank! While others with no savings will have their housing benefits cut! Tories protecting the rich and making the poor pay for it!  Keep fox hunting illegal! |
I've been saying that for weeks, its a nonsense, but remember who set it up that way and it certainly wasn't the Tories, to my mind you should not get it automatically, like other benefits you should have to apply, so that those with enough money wouldn't qualify