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heard today of an old lady who had only had 2 payments when ad gotsomeone rang council for her they asked for postcode when he said bb5 was told thats why if it had been bb6 she would have had 3 payments when he asked if it was colder in that part of accy he was told that rules:rolleyes:http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/i...cons/icon5.gif

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[QUOTE=esteemedjuju;777594]heard today of an old lady who had only had 2 payments when ad gotsomeone rang council for her they asked for postcode when he said bb5 was told thats why if it had been bb6 she would have had 3 payments when he asked if it was colder in that part of accy he was told that rules:rolleyes:http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/i...cons/icon5.gif[/QUOTE I consider and believe all pensioners should have their gas and electric free.

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agree turkish.:)

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Most have worked all of their life and its ridiculous some have to choose between eating and heating. We should look after our elderly in this country. The government should shame whatever party.

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According to the direct gov website BB5 should have 3 cold weather payments Cold Weather Payment: Directgov - Pensions and retirement planning

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That doesnt really matter .. there was a problem a few years ago ... my mum was interviewed for bbc northwest ... in rising bridge one side of the road got cold weather payments .. the other side of the road didnt .. all due to where the weather station was where they took the temperatures from .. one side was in the lake district the other was at winter hill i think it was ..

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Since the Conservatives started denationalizing public utilities, such as gas, electricity, and coal in the early eighties, and the main focus of those companies is now their shareholder's profits, that is never going to happen in a million years.

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I got the £25 cold weather payment last week
my mum who lives in Preston got the £300 heating allowance before Christmas

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I've had 1 cold weather payment of £25 dated 26th Dec, according to the Gov. web site BB5 is due 3 as Emzy posted, but haven't received any since

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Yes Jaysay i too am in the BB5 area and have had 1 payment so far

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The cold weather payments, and the way same are applied are pathetic!!

The payment should not be means tested, if you have paid your contributions etc, then you should receive all the payments. It should not be applied to only people who receive benefits.

It's the old, old story in this country, spend it, and still receive assistance, although I do agree with the old people having help, but not the people who have resisted employment and thus have very little income, but can still find money for cig's and beer.

Tony Alvi:confused:

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I totally agree Tony even though I DO get these payments, if your elderly you still feel the cold irrespective of circumstances

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I think that the Severely Disabled should also receive the Winter Heating Allowance as well as people over 60.


Best Regards - Taggy

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I fully agree with needy cases receiving help, it's simply the ones who have never "earned their corn" but always have their hands out ready to pick up owt for nowt.

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I agree, i'm not advocating yet more money for the Work Shy, just a more caring, beneficial service for those who genuinely cant, and who suffer during winter months.

My lad is in his 20's, is Severely Brain Injured, cant walk and is Wheelchair bound, and only has the use of one hand. During this current spell of bad weather he has only been able to leave the house once in the last 3 weeks, he lives on a cul de sac which has been impassable, and even if he got past that then most pavements have not been gritted so are impossible for an adult in a wheelchair.

Effectively house bound and with the heating and lighting on all day, yet he doesn't receive a penny in Winter Heating Allowance, which kicks in automatically for older people at 60.

Best Regards - Taggy

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These are the real issues the government should be addressing.

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But the Tories opposed cold weather payments and have stated they will make cuts if elected :confused:

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You can't just write things and wish them to be true Mancie. :p

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:D..and your source is from "conservatives.com" :D.. you crack me up.

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well what else did ya expect?:D:D

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Originally Posted by http://www.conservatives.com/News/Ne...n_about_Conser vative_plans.aspx
Eric, the Conservative Party Chairman, said, "People shouldn't believe Labour's desperate spin. We have no plans to cut the free TV licences for pensioners, free bus passes, or the winter fuel allowance.”
Eric says?... so Andrew all thes cuts and hard decisions ... where are they going to be made?

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Oh how silly of me to get it from the horses mouth what they'd do!

Shall we just play a game of making it up and ignoring what their policies are?

You started. I'm next:

Labour don't believe in the NHS

Your turn Mancie.

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Lets get this sorted..the Tories say there will be no cuts in the NHS, no cuts in Pensions, no cuts in Policing, no cuts in Public Transport, no cuts in Benifits, no cuts in Energy, no mention of the cuts they will make for education
But they say there will be cuts in tax for those earning over 100k per year and an end to inheritance tax on those whose estates are worth more than 500k.
Were are these cuts going to be made?.. Andrew and his mob don't even know yet they follow like blind mice.

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bet ya don't get n answer no way.

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let's play "you tell us were the cuts will be made" game...but I reckon you don't know!:D

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You just make it up as you go along though Mancie. For example, Conservative policy is to raise tax on the highest earners. You can agree or disagree with this.. but instead you just say "they say there will be cuts in tax for those earning over 100k per year" the total opposite of what their policy is.

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NHS spending and overseas aid spending will be ring fenced. There's still a budget to come yet so no there are not any fixed policies on which departments will be cut. I imagine all but the two named will be though.

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all but two.. so cuts in education, cuts in Policing, cuts in pensions in any second Parliment, cuts in benifits in the first Parliment, tax hand outs to those that you consider hold "Victorian Values"... and cuts in Defence..you say you don't know were the cuts will be.. well I've just told you.;)

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I didn't say I didn't know where the cuts would be, I said I imagine it will be across the board department cuts with the exception of NHS/Overseas aid.

If you think we can continue with such a massive budget deficit then you're on cloud cuckoo!

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And i guess if Gordon Brown had looked after the country in the good years their would be no cuts to be made now.

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You "imagine" it will be across the board which would involve policing,defence and pensions..but no mention of cuts to the tax dodging millioniars .. that was well put Andrew the new Tory slogan "imagine there's no country, above us only sky"..or as Maggie put it "no society"...Thatcherism is on the horizon,!

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Thought they were increasing pensions.

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I said departments budgets would be cut. I never said pensions would. Cutting a department budget does not mean you must cut every single thing in it. In fact I expect the basic state pension will rise as they are set in line with earnings.

Under Conservative policy non-domiciles will be getting taxed extra Manice. David Cameron talks about society a lot. You don't half make things up because of your hatred of Margaret Thatcher who left office some time ago.

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Any Goverment will increase pensions in the first Parliment because it is law.. but cuts the Tories have in mind involve state pensions and they have said they cannot guarentee the price index increase on state pensions...lets get real..the Tories opposed the state pension and they don't like it.. simple.

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You say it as if they plan to do these things. They plan quite the opposite. Not much point continuing this when you just make up what they believe!

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OK Andrew ..you are the bod on this site that is active as far as the Tories are concerned.. so can you tell people were the cuts will be made?
I've have stated were these cuts will be made and I don't think I'm making it up..so tell us if there will be cuts in pensions or defence or wherever and if you don't know then why do you come on here getting involved with politics and all that.... you should be telling your chums in the student bar about how the Tories are going to save Britain.

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The Tories will save Britain by making a big change from an economy built on debt,to an economy built on savings.Raising tax allowances for pensioners from 2,000-11,490.These changes will be made by restricting government departments except for Health,Schools,Defence and International development.
Abolishing increase in tax for everyone on basic rate.Top rate earners paying the same.

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sounds great and no cuts in Defence,Health,Schools..lovely.. but were will the cuts be made?.. it's a simple question:)

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How do you think Labour and Mr. Borrow could save Britain?

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Ask Jeeves.

(I think that's the name of the Cameron's butler.)

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I like this one the new 50p tax rate and associated changes to the taxation of high earners should be kept in place in order to ensure that the richest in our society pay their share of the burden of the LABOUR DEBT CRISIS.

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I don't Know Mr Borrow? The Tories will save Britain for themselves ..for the minority that don't like the idea of a society ..and base economics on the majority feeding the rich minority by taxes that do not effect them.. given time will they will bleed and slurp until last drops of community are demolished..they prey on the unfortunate as to break us down... thats what I say :eek:

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Okay. However how do you think Labour will do a better job on the economy and running the country.

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Labour have already done a better job than the Tories have ever done..I'm thinking about the 3.5 + millions unemployed in what the Tories called an economic upgrade in the 80's.. I'm talking about the reality of 17% intrest on motgages ,homes being repossed at a rate that broke the working men and women,hospital patients on trollies in corridors, no winter payments and when thousands of old people died each year.
Those 18 years of Thatcherite Tories was a bloody nightmare for most right thinking people .. there is no way Labour or any other party apart from the Tories could do a worse job than you lot did.

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Just checked my bank account and a second cold weather payment of £25 went in this morning

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So you think running up unprecedented debt is a great way to run anything, somebody should have told Brown when your in a hole stop bloody digging, its always the same Labour screw it up and leave it to the Tories to sort it out, They all just like you Mancie big on mouth short on action

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Snap Mick so have I

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I would look into that Taggy, the place I work is home to five deafblind adults who all receive Severe Disablement Allowance as part of their benefits and three of them have automatically received their £25 cold weather payment (the other two may have as well but as we are not appointee for them I can't say for sure).

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Imagine? Guess?

Hardly a couple of words that can be used to imply very strong policies are they?

:p

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What do I have to do to get the cold weather payment? I am 71 my wife is 62, we both have a state pension, or should I say just a little back from the thousands we have paid in during my 45 working years (plus army service) and my wife's 40 years working years.
I have checked our bank accounts again today and not a single payment over the usual has gone in.
Post code is BB5 0** and I can tell you it's been well below freezing for days.

Youse who have got payments must know summat I don't.

Gremlin R.T.

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i think you have to be on extra benifits not sure though try ringing age concern sure they'd be able to help

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Reckon Mancie must've run out of spanners by now as he just loves to throw them in the works. For myself, I doubt that Brown's Labour minions will leave nothing of the UK for anyone to save - let alone the Tories that Mancie simply revels in maligning at any given opportunity.

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I see? I don't even have un-extra benifits (if there is such a word) as I have a decent company pension as well as the state one. I will ring Age Concern to be sure but even so the cold snap didn't differentiate between me and other folk on benifits.

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...mail_mud_y.gif Bye bye. Gremlin R.T.

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Since my car accident ive been on low rate Dissability Allowance and Incapacity benefit. I am not elligiable for the cold weather payment. I rang DSS to double check this and was told that i needed to be on a benefit that was topped up with Income Support to be able to recieve it.

So at a guess i would say that the majority of disabled people did not get any cold weather payments.

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Those on a pension should have received the Heating allowance which is between £120 and £300
You will not get cold weather payment as well
Those on Benefits must be on income support to get the £25 cold weather payment

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those who are on income support only get it if they have a child under the age of 5

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wrong i have had 2 payments

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i dont get y u only get £25 if it is 0 or below what about when its 1 degrees lol surely u shud get something

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They have to have some sort of starting point to trigger payment they have decided its zero:eek:

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wow £25! it was £7 when ty was little!

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I dont get any cold weather payments either (have a 'works pension'), but I don't begrudge it to those that do.
I have £25 a week more than them every week of the year, and some people are raising the next generation on the amount per week I get for just me.

I might feel a bit guilty about having a 'comfortable retirement', but I did work 35 years full time to get it, and I don't use my doctor and so spend quite a bit on alternative medicine.

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have a read of this .. and if you think you are eligible then go down to the jobcentre ..

Cold Weather Payment : Directgov - Pensions and retirement planning

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ok, maybe i should have wrote FAMILIES, i got it once when Reece was a baby

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that link is very useful, thanx Jen, i'm on JSA, i signed on last Tuesday and i still havent been paid, there's lots of useful phone numbers on there

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Yet another cold weather payment went into my account today that makes 3 upto now

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has it been cold? i'd not noticed, i thought it had been rather mild actually, have we gone below zero in the last few days?

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I was told by Welfare Rights that I am NOT eligible for any payments because I have too much money coming in each week.
The nice lady said it was unfortunate that all the taxes I paid over 50 years (I still pay now at 71 years old) would be shared out amonst those not working and not me, her words not mine.
Never mind I will get over it now it's warming up.

Gremlin R.T.

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Ya mick got my third too this morning

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Sod Off you two.:D:D

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Oh come on Beni we're fragile and have to keep warm:D

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I am with British gas for Gas and Electric, i get this through card and key which i can top up from my pc.
Being on Benefits they said in November they would put me on a tariff called "essentials" which is much cheaper rate than the standard rate.
The other day i got a statement from them for the gas it said i was still on there standard tariff for Gas but on the essentials for electric so i gave them a call,
the nice man on the other end of the phone took my details and asked for a meter reading and said he would phone back in one hour which he did.
He apologised and said i was owed £30 as an overpayment
He said you should get this next time you top up
I have just topped my gas by putting £10 on and the meter registered £40
what a nice man:D
But that's not the end of it he also said as i was on the "essentials" tariff and it had been such a bad winter they where giving everyone on "essentials" £50 back.
When i topped my electric key up with £10 this morning it registered £60 on the meter what a very very nice man :D

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What wonderful news for a change.:rolleyes:

I too am on the Essentials tariff and received a letter from those nice people at British Gas informing me that I was getting £50-00 the next time I top up my gas or Electric.:)

I also find it much easier to top up my Gas card and Electricity key from the comfort of my own home.:)
What a lovely change to find a really helpful company that look after their customers.:D:D

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I made a phone call to the department responsible for the payments and got told I was not eligible because I had a company pension and a private pension in addition to my and my wife's state pension.
I didn't realize it was an earning related payment..
I explained that I had worked, paid taxes and N.I. for 45 years and done my army service protecting Betty Windsor and Phil the Greek. The very pleasant young man who spoke to me gave me an address to write to asking for a review.
I have now decided to give up hope of receiving the payment.