| TV Licences for the over 75s 15:22 - Jun 19 with 3939 views | GeoffSentence |
My Gordon Brown hating, tory voting parents-in-law are livid that their free TV licence is being taken away.
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| TV Licences for the over 75s on 17:17 - Jun 19 with 997 views | GeoffSentence |
That's a different argument though, I just found it funny that they never had a good word to say about Gordon Brown and always voted tory despite not being poor and now they are hopping mad that the gift Gordon gave them has been taken away by the very people they voted for.
I can't wait to see their faces when they need social care. | |
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| TV Licences for the over 75s on 17:20 - Jun 19 with 996 views | factual_blue |
| TV Licences for the over 75s on 16:39 - Jun 19 by Chondzoresk |
Should be means tested. I know a guy in his late 60s, amazing pension, plays the stock market for fun and still rubs everyone’s nose in it when he proclaims he gets his TV license and money towards his heating bills...like he needs it. Probably why everyone hates him.... |
If he's in his late sixties, he doesn't get a free TV licence: you have to be over seventy-five. |  |
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| TV Licences for the over 75s on 17:26 - Jun 19 with 986 views | PJH |
| TV Licences for the over 75s on 17:20 - Jun 19 by factual_blue |
If he's in his late sixties, he doesn't get a free TV licence: you have to be over seventy-five. |
As two of us have already pointed out, although you have done it better. |  | | |
| TV Licences for the over 75s on 17:48 - Jun 19 with 959 views | BloomBlue |
| TV Licences for the over 75s on 17:20 - Jun 19 by factual_blue |
If he's in his late sixties, he doesn't get a free TV licence: you have to be over seventy-five. |
Maybe he got confused with the free bus pass |  | | |
| TV Licences for the over 75s on 17:54 - Jun 19 with 952 views | factual_blue |
| TV Licences for the over 75s on 17:26 - Jun 19 by PJH |
As two of us have already pointed out, although you have done it better. |
My apologies. My team clearly didn't spot your post.
I will deal with my team later. | |
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| TV Licences for the over 75s on 19:37 - Jun 19 with 911 views | north_stand77 |
| TV Licences for the over 75s on 17:08 - Jun 19 by PJH |
Taking my own case in isolation I do not feel at all guilty about accepting whatever I am given in benefits/perks having worked from age 17 until just short of my 63rd birthday apart from breaks due to being made redundant three times.
During that time I contributed in National Insurance and Income Tax(no idea what they are called now)and had very very few days off sick.
When I do feel guilty is when you hear of families living on the breadline or worse but I am not sure if my refusing my £100 per year fuel allowance or not having occasional free bus rides would make too much difference to that.
Basically there are two sides to the argument and if I was means tested then I am comfortable enough to survive without these things but where has the 40 odd years of my NI and Tax gone? |
Absolutely agree with this.
There are millions in a similar position who were told that by paying in all their lives, there would be a few benefits later in life. These are gradually being eroded. |  | | |
| TV Licences for the over 75s on 19:40 - Jun 19 with 908 views | BLUEBEAT |
| TV Licences for the over 75s on 17:17 - Jun 19 by GeoffSentence |
That's a different argument though, I just found it funny that they never had a good word to say about Gordon Brown and always voted tory despite not being poor and now they are hopping mad that the gift Gordon gave them has been taken away by the very people they voted for.
I can't wait to see their faces when they need social care. |
Yes, sorry for taking it on a tangent. |  |
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| TV Licences for the over 75s on 22:37 - Jun 19 with 871 views | Pinewoodblue |
My Mum, 98 , isn't too pleased that she will have to pay for a TV licence next year.
People do realise that is that nice company, Capita, that collects TV licence fees for the BBC and pursues payment from non payers.. . |  |
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| TV Licences for the over 75s on 22:42 - Jun 19 with 858 views | Pinewoodblue |
| TV Licences for the over 75s on 17:08 - Jun 19 by PJH |
Taking my own case in isolation I do not feel at all guilty about accepting whatever I am given in benefits/perks having worked from age 17 until just short of my 63rd birthday apart from breaks due to being made redundant three times.
During that time I contributed in National Insurance and Income Tax(no idea what they are called now)and had very very few days off sick.
When I do feel guilty is when you hear of families living on the breadline or worse but I am not sure if my refusing my £100 per year fuel allowance or not having occasional free bus rides would make too much difference to that.
Basically there are two sides to the argument and if I was means tested then I am comfortable enough to survive without these things but where has the 40 odd years of my NI and Tax gone? |
Winter fuel payment is £200. If two people in the household qualify you get £100 each. If you declined the money the other pensioner in the household would get the £200.
Rather than refuse it the best way is to donate an equal sum to a worthy charity which, with gift, costs the government more. | |
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| TV Licences for the over 75s on 22:54 - Jun 19 with 847 views | Basuco |
By the Tory party, which makes it so funny, it appears not to be widely reported that the Government stopped funding the free over 75 licence to save money and just expected the BBC to pick up the tab. Unsurprisingly the BBC is not keen to absorb the costs of this. I hope you enjoy telling them this. |  | | |
| TV Licences for the over 75s on 00:09 - Jun 20 with 820 views | jeera |
| TV Licences for the over 75s on 22:42 - Jun 19 by Pinewoodblue |
Winter fuel payment is £200. If two people in the household qualify you get £100 each. If you declined the money the other pensioner in the household would get the £200.
Rather than refuse it the best way is to donate an equal sum to a worthy charity which, with gift, costs the government more. |
It does seem odd that someone living in the Canaries still qualifies for the WA.
Of all the things to cut back on I'd have thought that would be a fair shout.
Although I suppose it would a saving of relatively peanuts so no one has bothered maybe. |  |
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| TV Licences for the over 75s on 01:21 - Jun 20 with 792 views | syntaxerror |
Its ok, Nigel will shut down the lefty BBC, but we will all get the opportunity to subscribe to Fox News and RT |  | | |
| TV Licences for the over 75s on 05:57 - Jun 20 with 760 views | Oldsmoker |
| TV Licences for the over 75s on 22:37 - Jun 19 by Pinewoodblue |
My Mum, 98 , isn't too pleased that she will have to pay for a TV licence next year.
People do realise that is that nice company, Capita, that collects TV licence fees for the BBC and pursues payment from non payers.. . |
Capita - the company that destroys the argument that the private sector do it better than the public sector.
When I moved into my flat the landlord told me to ignore the TV license threats for Flat A as it doesn't exist. It's Flats 1,2 and 3.
Every 4 weeks the "we know where you live" threat arrives in the post and is put to one side.
They have never once come round to bust Flat A. |  |
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