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Sandra Pearson

@smpearson54

Countryside and nature in general lover. Caring for elderly mum. Love reading, it's my escape

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2 Team GB athletes remake the scene from Titanic, Céline Dion expected. So, to finish things off, maybe "My Heart Will Go On" tonight? 😅 #Paris2024 #OpeningCeremony

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(1/13) We strongly oppose the means-testing of Winter Fuel Payment (WFP) because our initial estimate is that as many as two million pensioners who badly need the money to stay warm this winter will not receive it. Read our full statement:

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(2/13) As many as two million pensioners who badly need the money to stay warm this winter will not receive it and will be in trouble as a result – yet at the other end of the spectrum well-off older people will scarcely notice the difference – a social injustice.

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(3/13) A big reason for this disastrous outcome is that more than one in three pensioners entitled to Pension Credit, the qualifying benefit for WFP under this proposal, don’t receive it, a proportion that’s been roughly constant for many years. More than 800,000 older people...

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(4/13) living on very low incomes – under £218.25 a week for single pensioners and under £332.95 for couples – who are already missing out of the Pension Credit they are entitled to get to boost their incomes, will now lose the WFP that helps them to pay their fuel bills.

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(5/13) In addition, there are also about a million pensioners whose weekly incomes are less than £50 above the poverty line, who will also be hit hard by the loss of the Payment.

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(6/13) Older people in this group often tell us they really struggle financially; the proposed change will make it even harder for them to afford to stay warm when it gets chilly.

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(8/13) older people whose incomes are a little higher though still limited, but who live in energy inefficient homes and/or who are seriously unwell and need to keep the thermostat turned up high in order to protect their health.

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(9/13)It is well established that pensioners tend to do everything possible to avoid going into debt so if they are worried about their future energy bills we know their likely response will be to ration their fuel use and economise by reducing their spending on other essentials.

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(10/13) This proposed policy change is therefore certain to result in more older people experiencing a horrible 'eating or heating' dilemma.

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(11/13) Means-testing WFP this winter, with virtually no notice and no compensatory measures to protect poor and vulnerable pensioners, is the wrong policy decision, and...

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(13/13) With winter now just over the horizon, the Government should halt their proposed change to WFP and think again, given the clear evidence of how it will hurt the older people who need it the most.

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Ye gods the lynch mobs are out in force today. Hung drawn and quartered before even charged let alone found guilty #stabbing

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Very interesting the international boxing association’s statement. The IOC have been told repeatedly this is unsafe. They just don’t care.

Very interesting the international boxing association’s statement. The IOC have been told repeatedly this is unsafe. They just don’t care.