Starmer said 4000 people will die when he thought the tories were going to remove it. So by taking it away he knows that 4000 people will die and he chose to let that happen. He is full of pride so could never back down or apologise. His pride is a deadly sin.
Pensioners aren't working, to be fair. 😂 I'm in agreement that it shouldn't have been fully pulled back for those not on Pension credit. But I'm absolutely glad I won't be paying for the energy bills of people like Alan asugar. He does not need my tax money. I hope that when the budget comes, they reintroduce it for those on incomes under about £20k (household).
If people think there is really a financial black hole, they need to ask themselves where next months money for Ukraine and asylum hotels is coming from. (And then they need to keep asking themselves the same question the next month after that then the month after that etc.)
@steveb3060 I agree, we also need to know where the largest transfer of wealth in history went to over the last 14 years. And after over a decade of austerity why the country is in £2.7 trillion of debt with a debt to GDP of 100%.
@@bbuzz1687 Yes I do, and tens of thousands of illegals later they are still saying the same thing. Seems like you CAN fool some of the people some of the time.
Every politician around the world, except for ours. Understand that you NEVER target the children or the old people. As this genuinely angers the population!
Let's not forget the US there. Let's also not forget that over 50s in the UK own a ridiculous 78% of the UKs private property, and a huge proportion of the country's wealth in general. I agree that the scheme needs to be reinstated for those who need it most, but not in full. People like Alan Sugar should NOT be automatically eligible. My taxes do not need to go to a wealthy tax dodger.
How on gods earth if you “worked hard” have paid off your mortgage can you not live off £900 disposable income a month? Do you think families have that sort of cash?
@@AlOh-2 If she worked as a nurse for 25 years why doesn’t she have a nurses pension. My mother’s a retired nurse & her nurses pension is £900 a month & on top of that she gets the state pension. What angers me is inaccurate reporting & information surrounding this issue for the purposes of getting a headline.
AND a heck of a bit better looked after Son trying to get a face to face doctor for months finally got an emergency appointment and lo and behold he was the only native in the waiting area!
Yeah I saw that a few weeks ago. The media are strangely silent about this. Probably because they helped spread the myth that ALL migrants coming to our country are a benefit, when it is quite clearly the opposite.
They’d recoup that if Starmer quit! I remember looking into it at the time and Sunak was getting 600,000 a year: I think it was just over that and I was so shocked 😮 They should get an average wage like other people.
Strangely enough only this January Racheal Reeves was complaining that she was finding it difficult to manage on her £90.000+ salary, bearing in mind her husband was earning £170.000+. That equates to a total income of over £260;000. Should we really feel sorry for her and excuse her for taking £7500 in clothing!, as they say it's tough at the top but freezing at the bottom!.
Rumours has its, more like £150,000 annually new salary it's more like what it looks. Now like £320,000 household annually, let's not forget the extra Perks.
@@christophergomez7435 Once again politics has failed to deliver to the working class, but with 200+ billionaires someone in life seems to be getting on aren't they!.
@@MaryBishop-js7rl That's what they want bump off the aging population and save on NHS care homes and dont forget what they can get from your house and any estate.
@@jeremiahpoole6526 they dont want to hear that side of the equation.. pay a level of tax to fund a subsistence pension and you will receive a subsistence level pension. The tax breaks were there to incentivise people to top up with private savings be that private pensions or things like ISAs. The lack of accountability is showing.
@@markmcbride678 No it's not. But sadly it seems there is no difference between the last government and this government. Even their own party has voted against them and condemned them.
Just a reminder that over 50s in the UK own 78% of the private property wealth. Winter fuel allowance is still there for those on pension credit. Imo, raise the threshold higher, to say £24k (minimum wage), to make it more fair. But it absolutely needed changing. My taxes shouldn't be paying Alan Sugar's energy bills.
@thomasnixon1270 pity the tories didn't do that with all covid contracts to friends or would of been so much money in coffers ... but hey labour now got to clear up.14 years of tory backhanders
The energy companies need to be stopped from charging so much standing charge. Expecting the government to step in and help financially when the energy companies are making so much profit is crazy. Force them to reduce the standing charges.
@chrysalis4126 Never mind the standing charges, they are making record profits and plus the fact the wholesale prices have fallen and have not been passed onto the customer.
@@owestyoSo what she should be saying to the broker she uses for gas and electricity cancel the direct debit tell them she's moving out then ignore all the post from them as will be to the occupier then turn the heating up
Depends where you live. Two people on minimum wage around where I am can live very comfortably. If people choose not to move to a cheaper location, then they need to realise that it's a choice they've made, and one that perfectly illustrates why the area is expensive in the first place; nobody is willing to move out while more want to move in, so prices spike. Best option? Go where the demand is low, build wealth and move back later.
Exactly, you’re worse off with having savings and they whip your home away to pay for your care. Someone else will get the care for nothing. Don’t get me started with the Inheritance Tax urrrh
Because you don't want to become the thing you claim to hate? But also because it's still way more money than you'll get on the vast majority of benefits, unless you really milk it. I spent a year or so on ESA due to multiple surgeries/disability, and it was one of the toughest years of my life financially. Admittedly, not helped by having savings. But even so, I'd much, much prefer to work.
Because food and rates cost money . Go on dole lasts only six months and job must be yours My guess is you need to be educated in fiddling and then risk jail
Taking away what is a necessity in this cold country is the mark of a uncaring government. One thing's for sure Starmer &co won't be turning their heating down this winter , no difficult decision for them
@@nigel4776she probably does as she is just over the threshold HOWEVER the NHS pension is not as good as it used to be with all the reforms PLUS now a nurse can't claim her NHS until she is 67 years old so think about that when 67 year olds are looking after you if sadly you need hospital treatment this lady is 66 she would still have another year of work under the new rules, frightening isn't it
My sister who is 70 can’t get pension credits even though she only gets her pension.. it’s because her partner who’s 10 years younger than here I might add he’s not working or receiving any benefits he’s recovering from Cancer the reason given was that they can only give it to a couple of pension age .. then you get MP’s who on a fantastic wage they claim heating allowance and anything else they want ..Rayner is spending over £68,000 a year on a photographer Stalin Starmer has claimed over £100,000 and £10,000 for his son to study in piece and quiet for his GCSE’s this government is so much corrupt they need to go the lot of them shame on anyone that voted these communists in
@@JohnRayKing they are allowed to “claim back” money already spent on utility bills for one property if they have, because of their role in government, had to rent a second property. If they didn’t rent then the chances are they would be continually claiming for rail travel / business miles or hotel bills instead.
But that's the communist way. All the old communist countries had an elite ruling class who had all the privileges, and the drones/worker bees who had the bare minimum.
It's not just the £200 heating allowance that I worry about. Every time I turn my 10 year old telly on I worry that it will not work, when I put the washing machine on I worry that it will get through it's cycle and my gurgley old fridge freezer will last another summer. As for an electric car or a new fangled boiler?? At 72, who will lend me any money???
Junk the telly. Listen to the radio. Junk the washing machine and use the laundrette. Junk the fridge/freeezer and shop daily for fresh food. There. Problem solved.
@@grahamcook9289 many if not most elderly folks have mobility issues. How to access shops daily? Is there a launderette within easy reach? We live in a village with no bus service and one small village shop, for instance. Our nearest town which is 6 miles away, has no launderette. No banks now, either. Plenty of barbers, charity shops and coffee houses (which we can't afford to frequent).
I am on the old style pension (started work in 1960) and my small NHS pension takes me just over the limit. How come this NHS nurse, paid far more than I would have been as an auxiliary worker, has not got a decent NHS pension to help her out
We don't know her full circumstances, she may have had a career break or worked part time in order to raise a family. Some people opted out of the NHS pension in order to use the money for day to day necessities. You will be aware that nursing staff were paid poorly in previous decades.
@addier44 It depends what you call 'poorly'. In the 80's and 90's it was still at least 3 times the pay of auxiliaries, ancillaries, and junior office workers.
@@Bezjc1936Yes these work groups were paid according to the grading structures in the 80s / 90s. In the 1980s my first wage as a qualified nurse taking responsibility for a ward and patients was about £600 a month. If you consider that well paid? I worked hard to train and pass my exams for my nursing qualification, my pay then as opposed to say, an auxiliary nurse, was to reflect my level of responsibility and experience. After retiring through poor health two years ago my NHS pension amounted to about £230 a week. I will also get a reduced state pension when I reach that age because paying into the NHS pension automatically reduced my contributions to the state pension. That is despite having worked and made payment to the state pension for over 40 years of work life.
I am a retired nurse 25 years of it working in NHS, i did have a break in my NHS career but returned. I get 14.5k a year occupational pension . My Q is why did she not pay into that ,she would have been in a better place . Even so i still think removing the fuel allowance even for basic rate taxpaying pensioner is wrong.
It depends what her financial circumstances were whilst working, if there was a partner earning, if there were any extra dependents (disabled children, etc). She may not have been able to afford to.
In the 80s when I moved out of the hospital to become a district nurse we were encouraged to take out my ‘superannuation’ and we had small children so I did take it out. Then when I first became a Practice Nurse in the 90s we were unable to pay into the nhs pension along with the other practice staff, but interesting enough the Drs could pay in. We were able to opt into it sometime in the late 90s, So I do have a small pension, but I’m not complaining, just saying circumstances differ as to how much Pension we get.
@@roseharper2648 I think a lot of people, especially women have been advised incorrectly over the years about their pensions. I keep saying to younger folks that i talk to including my own daughters, please provide for a pension otherwise you will regret it.
In 1908 when the State Pension was first introduced for those aged 70 and over, a woman of this age was expected to live on average an additional 9.3 years, and a man 8.4 years (1901), meaning pensions needed to last around 9 years. In 2011 men and women at this age were expected to live for approximately 20 more years, meaning we need to make our pensions last more than twice as long as when they were first introduced. Simply not affordable now is it.
Automatic enrolment into a pension didn’t start until 2012. Before that, especially people who were part time, had to opt in. Many people didn’t understand this. I don’t know if this was her case, but it was more likely to affect women than men as part time workers.
@@macsmiffy2197 So, she could have up to 12 years of occupational pension if she worked from 2012 to 2024. I smell a rat. Why didn't they ask her about the NHS occupational pension?
@@leehenry5764 I don't know her personally either, but we do know she worked for the NHS for 25 years, so it is an obvious and reasonable question to ask her about the NHS occupational pension.
@@karenrobinson129exactly, do overseas pay the UK any aid? Nope 👎 so totally agree with you and Nigel , just vote for Reform UK 🇬🇧 and let’s get our country back 🇬🇧
your king is too polite to intervene. "it would look rude and undermine PM authority", your king probably think. yoir Queen didnt intervene during Covid pandemic. And she paid the price when they forced her to sit on her own. 😂
This man is a millionaire how can he understand how we pensioners have to live to stay out of debt. I am older than this lady and did pay into the NHS pension scheme while I worked in the NHS so do have a small second pension but I will still have to make hard decisions to stretch my money and stay out of debt. Previous years I have paid my winter fuel payment straight into my energy account so I had credit over winter to keep my payments down.
Most people on tv are wealthy people but he also probably has other family members who could be struggling, it's good that this terrible decision by the governments is still being highlighted and kept in the news
Between him and his wife they have just about £10 million and they get free cloths and tickets to football matches and concerts and that is not counting all the benefits they claim like heating etc from the tax payers. Its iam ok jack and you OAP`s can suffer as i want more of your money for my and my wifes rich lifestyle.
This man is a millionaire…. So are over 25% of pensioners. Why on earth should millionaires be given a winter fuel allowance. In fact Richard Madeley is retirement age himself, should he be given the allowance? Means testing is long overdue.
What has her pension got to do with her getting WFP, I suspect that you believe that because of her pension that she might be too well off if thats the case how in your opinion do you define a rich pensioner bearing in mind that financial experts believe that £24k is the income needed to lead a reasonable standard of living
@@johnsidwell2241 I just ask what is the position with regard to her NHS pension? Does she have one? And if not, why not? Public sector workers are privileged to have such generous pensions, not available as a right to most non-public sector workers.Let's have a bit of honesty and full disclosure in the so called journalistic reports. That's all. Is it too much to ask for a bit of objective professionalism from these media multi-millionaires?
@@johnsidwell2241 on the pension scheme that she was on she would be getting about £15-20k on top even at the lowest nurse band as this was a very generous scheme that we can only dream of now in the new nhs schemes.
@@grahamcook9289 And we pay for them as a percentage of our salary they are not given to us before I retired I was paying 8%of my salary and it's almost certainly more than that now and the pension we get is taxed
I still get the feeling Reid has not a clue how the other half live. She lives in a bubble. Pretending she can relate . How much money does she spend trying look younger. She's toxic.
@@AngelaDibble-qc2ot If she's worked for even just one or two decades with the NHS, she'd be over the threshold. Unless she opted out of the pension...
@@AngelaDibble-qc2otMy mother is a retired nurse, she’s 89 & qualified in the mid 60’s. She has a nurses pension of £900 a month plus the state pension so I’m interested to know why Chrissy only mentions that she gets a State pension & nothing else. How odd.
I am surprised she did not have an occupational pension as I had one and am not much older than her. I have fibromyalgia and athritis and I like to keep warm. So that is a spanner in the works.. Mr PM was brought up in poverty and does not reflect that. Karma will come back and bite him on his bottom. This is the worst government I have seen in my 70 yrs
Erm, Mr PM was not brought up in poverty. It's widely believed that his father "the toolmaker" either owned the factory or was a well paid manager, well paid enough to send his son Keir to private school. Hardly brought up in poverty?
Many pensioners ,whilst not quite qualifying for pension credit ,have to pay ever increasing maintenance charges of sometimes £60 per week . As well as needing health costs . Starmer knows pensioners will not have voted for him so they do not count .
People will not vote Labour if they know this is going to happen. Young people have pensioner parents and grandparents too. Labour are rich and getting richer! Never mind the poor pensioners, freezing to death this winter.
My 80 year old mum and I went cold last winter.. looks like it’s another freezing one .. hot water bottles .. layers of clothes and candles!!! I suffer from RA so it’s crippling! We only dream of the old days when we could be warm in winter! I despise these politicians! Get this bunch of grifters out and Reform in … let’s protect our own first and foremost!!!
chrissy say's all they don't care about pensioners at all hit the rich or the mp's they won't have to think about eating or heating this winter all like all of us .
@@julielawlor5482 Ukraine was not invaded by Russia. Russia are undertaking a special military operation to liberate Russian people who have been persecuted and killed by the Ukrainian Govt since 2014 👍
My pension is below the cut off point but I won't get fuel allowance as I have some savings. You will find that many pensioners have savings to cover their funeral as our grown up children are living paycheck to paycheck and we don't want to burden them. We also need a bit extra for Christmas presents and meeting old friends occasionally. However, this seems to be begrudged by politicians.
It's not just pensioners, the long-term unemployed, stay-at-home mums and even working people suffer all the same. The government needs to nationalise energy and let the government pay.
Its gonna have to get to the point where families are going to have to set up go fund me's to receive donations for our pensioners. It a ridiculous state of affairs.
@@Fireglo the average amount of pension credit payable is £75 per week which works out at £300 per month in addition to the £300 winter fuel payment. That's £600!
Wonder if any if these multi millionaire presenters helped her out, or the super rich producers... Sick of the rich pretending they feel for the poor, complete joke.
Absolutely, there's plenty of nurses who are well off. One reason why people are kicking off is because they won't get a £300 annual freebie when they retire!!
While I'm sorry for Chrissy , I assume ( ex NHS / STAUNCH Labour ) she voted for these people , so , unfortunately , there we are.....I would suggest going forward , abandon these people and the Left-wing as a whole and use common sense as to which party is better for the country / people of her father.
Doesn't matter if she is a penny over. There is a cut off and she exceeds it, which means she has enough money and savings, that she dies not need state handouts.
She also won't qualify for any of the other benefits she would have been entitled to. So what's the point of putting away a bit in a small pension only to have it robbed off you in your old age? These despicable people want you permanently poor in your old age. They are despicable and make my skin crawl...I detest them.
they should have looked into more it was rushed through i have the state pension and a private pension which is taxed its not a lot i am not affluent i worked as a nurse for 48 yrs i knew labour was bad news and they will start looking at taking more away while they get lots of donations from their over lords
Well I'm 70 in a few months and my husband is 76 soon and my husband has rheumatoid arthritis and gets the shivers even in the summer a don't no how thi gs will be in winter so am going 2 buy sum good thermals from my local market God be with you all 😒
The thumbnail is slightly wrong.. It should say .. Choose to eat (go into debt), Choose to heat (go into debt) or Choose to save (freeze/starve to death). What a great country we live in go figure!
I don't agree with the cuts in the winter fuel allowance but I don't understand this. If she is a former NHS nurse, she should be getting a fantastic pension. What is she doing with it?
Usual poor research by the TV company. They don’t look into peoples finances before creating a story. Like the “woe is me” benefit stories. I worked in a Jobcentre, with people with mild health issues. Many were getting £2,000 a month plus rent and council tax paid, free bus pass, free dental treatment, cold weather payments, free eye tests. And they all had the cost of living payments. Meanwhile I worked and cared for my pensioner husband.And we had less money
Chancellor Rachel Reeves earns around £160,000 a year as a Government Minister. I survive on a state pension of £12,000 a year ... and she says SHE had to make difficult decisions. Well, now I have difficult decisions to make: FEED and FREEZE or keep the heating on and STARVE this WINTER! I am really NOT looking forward to the next few months ... if I make it. I SHALL NEVER VOTE FOR LABOUR AGAIN!
I thought that pension credit was brought in so those older pensioners on a basic pension, which is less than the new pension, would not lose out. What wasn’t realised was that the triple lock and the freezing of the tax threshold, would take basic pensions above the tax threshold. The system needs reviewing FAIRLY.
I am 88 years old. That's exactly what I thought, thankfully I get an occupational pension and my O.A.P which is stopping me getting any Winter fuel payments unde this Labour cut of Winter fuel allowance. I would have thought the NHS would have a pension fund for their employees.
Pensions have been protected against the cost of living for 14 years which cost the rest of society far more than £300 a year. The problem is the energy companies that keep putting the price up, just tax them and take them over.
I'm in the exactly the same boat, it's ridiculous. I have fibromyalgia and a heart and lung condition. Once I'm cold it's difficult to get warm, sadly I have had to get family to buy me an electric blanket and warm fleece so I can sit under a blanket rather than put the heating on..
Kier Starmer does not understand because he earned £400,000 last year and his wife approx £100,000 and he has only ever been a public servant. While have sympathy for Chrissy I would ask why as a former nurse she did not pay into the NHS scheme which is a great one. I have spent my whole life paying people in the public and private sector, and the number of women who take no responsibility for their old age has always frustrated me, and I say that as a women. If you were born before 1953, you could claim 60% of a state pensions based on your husbands contribution, so many women only paid married women's NI which was 3.85% rather than 12%, hence little pensions quite fair. Kier Starmer now and previous governments have made a good deal out of me and all the other WASPI women, when I retire next year , if I live that long six years late, I will have saved the Government £69,000, as one of the very last WASPI women I and those the same age as me have lost the most, they could have at least let us retire at 65, which was the age for men, and which even WASPI women understood as fair.
If she's a former nurse she should have a pension, the scheme before 2008 was especially generous. Why is she saying she only gets the £200+ state pension. She should be ok if she had invested in her pension. I work same as nurse salary in the NHS so I don't have to rely on the measly state pension. You have to also take responsibility for your own poverty if you didn't prepare for your old age too.
Its a pity she was not asked where her NHS pension has gone because if she worked for 25 years she will also receive a private pension. ??? think you picked the wrong example to interview.
I was a civil servant and did not have to pay into the pension scheme. Only the last few years did it change. Nhs pensions are calculated to give you more than a civil service pension.
But if she'd worked as a nurse for the NHS for 25 years her NHS pension is going to be pretty generous. Surely she can't be saying she's JUST above the limit. How could she possibly claim pension credit if she's getting an NHS pension, which are notoriously generous?
What happened to her NHS pension? Did she opt to take the full pension in a total payment. If she was a nurse then she would have got a NHS pension. My sister in law was a nurse and has an NHS pension. Why isn't she counting hers.?
It is virtually impossible to reduce your electricity and gas bills. In summer 90% of my bills are standing charge and in winter at least 80% of my bills are standing charges. As a result there is virtually nothing people can do to reduce their energy bills. My direct debit for dual fuel is £53/month, and there is nothing I can do to bring the bills down.
I’m 75 and also have arthritis but I won’t be able to heat my house adequately. I pay £120 per month electric so she is doing well only paying £70 for dual fuel.
@rosarose3443 It's not, the problem is the form, I just completed one for my neighbour she over 75 with arthritis and other health issues, she got it within 6 weeks.
In 1908 when the State Pension was first introduced for those aged 70 and over, a woman of this age was expected to live on average an additional 9.3 years, and a man 8.4 years (1901), meaning pensions needed to last around 9 years. In 2011 men and women at this age were expected to live for approximately 20 more years, meaning we need to make our pensions last more than twice as long as when they were first introduced.
It is not just one person, that is why there are so many Labour MP. Can't blame Chrissy. She did not know and many pensioners will not vote Labour again, now the true colour is out! Don't vote for them in the local elections too, remember.
My mum and dad have paid into the system all their life, they are now pensioners. They are literally just under the threshold with everything ... they suffer more than those on benefits
I am surprised she is in that position. Would she not be getting a decent NHS pension as well as the state pension. There should be some kind of means testing though and not the abrupt cut-off point that she and thousands of others are facing.
Would this lady not be eligible for enhanced pip as she has arthritis? I doubt shes existing on £218 per week. Something doesn't quite add up.Wait for the uproar, but there was no winter fuel allowance until the late nineties, my parents had to make do.
Starmer said 4000 people will die when he thought the tories were going to remove it. So by taking it away he knows that 4000 people will die and he chose to let that happen. He is full of pride so could never back down or apologise. His pride is a deadly sin.
He has no humanity
...probably got a list of names already....
My lungs have symptoms of cold house
It was 4000 job losses, not 4000 deaths!!
Stop supporting the royals because they dont care about the people but anyway royals come before the people
Labour is no longer looking after the working people. More like themselves
But labour voters are happy. They voted for this
@@HughJannus-vw4om and now regretting
Pensioners aren't working, to be fair. 😂
I'm in agreement that it shouldn't have been fully pulled back for those not on Pension credit.
But I'm absolutely glad I won't be paying for the energy bills of people like Alan asugar. He does not need my tax money.
I hope that when the budget comes, they reintroduce it for those on incomes under about £20k (household).
They haven't been for a long time. Too many people drank their "kool-aid."
@@Christoff8188I understand.
If people think there is really a financial black hole, they need to ask themselves where next months money for Ukraine and asylum hotels is coming from. (And then they need to keep asking themselves the same question the next month after that then the month after that etc.)
@steveb3060 I agree, we also need to know where the largest transfer of wealth in history went to over the last 14 years. And after over a decade of austerity why the country is in £2.7 trillion of debt with a debt to GDP of 100%.
@@steveb3060 or the 200 million tories gave Mrs Mone
The money for asylum seekers comes from the Overseas Aid Budget. Do you not remeber this being announced a few years ago?
@@bbuzz1687that's asylum seekers ,this is illegal immigrants of young men who come in boatfulls everyday not the people who really need help ,
@@bbuzz1687 Yes I do, and tens of thousands of illegals later they are still saying the same thing. Seems like you CAN fool some of the people some of the time.
Every politician around the world, except for ours.
Understand that you NEVER target the children or the old people.
As this genuinely angers the population!
Well said!
Let's not forget the US there.
Let's also not forget that over 50s in the UK own a ridiculous 78% of the UKs private property, and a huge proportion of the country's wealth in general.
I agree that the scheme needs to be reinstated for those who need it most, but not in full. People like Alan Sugar should NOT be automatically eligible. My taxes do not need to go to a wealthy tax dodger.
How on gods earth if you “worked hard” have paid off your mortgage can you not live off £900 disposable income a month?
Do you think families have that sort of cash?
Here in New Zealand our new national government doesn't give a toss about kids elderly or the average kiwi
@@AlOh-2 If she worked as a nurse for 25 years why doesn’t she have a nurses pension. My mother’s a retired nurse & her nurses pension is £900 a month & on top of that she gets the state pension. What angers me is inaccurate reporting & information surrounding this issue for the purposes of getting a headline.
And yet the Office of Budget Reform has stated every illegal migrant will cost the country £463,000 not including their dependants, god help us.
AND a heck of a bit better looked after Son trying to get a face to face doctor for months finally got an emergency appointment and lo and behold he was the only native in the waiting area!
Yeah I saw that a few weeks ago. The media are strangely silent about this. Probably because they helped spread the myth that ALL migrants coming to our country are a benefit, when it is quite clearly the opposite.
They’d recoup that if Starmer quit! I remember looking into it at the time and Sunak was getting 600,000 a year: I think it was just over that and I was so shocked 😮
They should get an average wage like other people.
Strangely enough only this January Racheal Reeves was complaining that she was finding it difficult to manage on her £90.000+ salary, bearing in mind her husband was earning £170.000+. That equates to a total income of over £260;000. Should we really feel sorry for her and excuse her for taking £7500 in clothing!, as they say it's tough at the top but freezing at the bottom!.
Rumours has its, more like £150,000 annually new salary it's more like what it looks. Now like £320,000 household annually, let's not forget the extra Perks.
@@christophergomez7435 Once again politics has failed to deliver to the working class, but with 200+ billionaires someone in life seems to be getting on aren't they!.
Wonder who will pay the funerals of all those who die of starvation and hypothermia?
@@MaryBishop-js7rl Maybe Lord Alli will dip in his pockets.🤔🙄😒.....
@@MaryBishop-js7rl That's what they want bump off the aging population and save on NHS care homes and dont forget what they can get from your house and any estate.
OAPS have the Lowest State Pension In EU......And Need That Extra Help This Winter.🥶
@Darren-g6f Darren why have you no information on your channel, what are trying to hide.
@Darren-g6f and yet those that have moved out of Britian will still get their Winter Fuel allowance irispective of their income,
@@Roger-gs5ewno they won't
Our European counterparts pay more in income tax, so they get more in return.
Simple as that.
@@jeremiahpoole6526 they dont want to hear that side of the equation.. pay a level of tax to fund a subsistence pension and you will receive a subsistence level pension. The tax breaks were there to incentivise people to top up with private savings be that private pensions or things like ISAs. The lack of accountability is showing.
They disgust me. Shame on Starmer.
@@thomasnixon1270 but ok with tories sending them back care homes with covid 🤔
@@markmcbride678 No it's not. But sadly it seems there is no difference between the last government and this government. Even their own party has voted against them and condemned them.
Just a reminder that over 50s in the UK own 78% of the private property wealth.
Winter fuel allowance is still there for those on pension credit.
Imo, raise the threshold higher, to say £24k (minimum wage), to make it more fair.
But it absolutely needed changing. My taxes shouldn't be paying Alan Sugar's energy bills.
@thomasnixon1270 pity the tories didn't do that with all covid contracts to friends or would of been so much money in coffers ... but hey labour now got to clear up.14 years of tory backhanders
@Christoff8188 well said...also 1 on 4 pensioners have assists over a million
The energy companies need to be stopped from charging so much standing charge. Expecting the government to step in and help financially when the energy companies are making so much profit is crazy. Force them to reduce the standing charges.
@chrysalis4126 Never mind the standing charges, they are making record profits and plus the fact the wholesale prices have fallen and have not been passed onto the customer.
.....or put ALL the Facilities which were Privatized - back into PUBLIC Ownership.
😂 good luck with that
@@osmosis1st .....yes - I know !
Our pensioners shouldn’t have anything to worry about let alone heating. After years of hard graft for your country absolutely shocking.
Why? It’s £5-6 a week. You telling me she doesn’t get a takeaway or smoke?
@@owestyo They need to cancel their netflix subscription or cut down on the avocado toast....
@@owestyoSo what she should be saying to the broker she uses for gas and electricity cancel the direct debit tell them she's moving out then ignore all the post from them as will be to the occupier then turn the heating up
@@hughiemg2 Fool
@@SilverbackMatt01 takes one to know one.
They need to raise the threshold
Best solution
Like reduced benefits.. politicians no idea how normal folk live or struggle. Even, people working, can't afford to live, or afford bills.
Depends where you live. Two people on minimum wage around where I am can live very comfortably.
If people choose not to move to a cheaper location, then they need to realise that it's a choice they've made, and one that perfectly illustrates why the area is expensive in the first place; nobody is willing to move out while more want to move in, so prices spike.
Best option? Go where the demand is low, build wealth and move back later.
Why should I bother working anymore?
Exactly, you’re worse off with having savings and they whip your home away to pay for your care. Someone else will get the care for nothing. Don’t get me started with the Inheritance Tax urrrh
Because you don't want to become the thing you claim to hate?
But also because it's still way more money than you'll get on the vast majority of benefits, unless you really milk it.
I spent a year or so on ESA due to multiple surgeries/disability, and it was one of the toughest years of my life financially. Admittedly, not helped by having savings.
But even so, I'd much, much prefer to work.
Why wouldn’t you?
@@Christoff8188 unfortunately I was paralysed 2 years ago and have no choice now.
Because food and rates cost money . Go on dole lasts only six months and job must be yours My guess is you need to be educated in fiddling and then risk jail
Taking away what is a necessity in this cold country is the mark of a uncaring government.
One thing's for sure Starmer &co won't be turning their heating down this winter , no difficult decision for them
I am76 worked as a nurse until I was 70 and 20 pounds over the amount for pension credit so I know how she feels
Sorry to hear that. They could alter the threshold surely
where is your massive NHS pension??
@@mongamez_7075she has not got one
Fair point but nhs pension is hardly massive 😂
@@nigel4776she probably does as she is just over the threshold HOWEVER the NHS pension is not as good as it used to be with all the reforms PLUS now a nurse can't claim her NHS until she is 67 years old so think about that when 67 year olds are looking after you if sadly you need hospital treatment this lady is 66 she would still have another year of work under the new rules, frightening isn't it
My sister who is 70 can’t get pension credits even though she only gets her pension.. it’s because her partner who’s 10 years younger than here I might add he’s not working or receiving any benefits he’s recovering from Cancer the reason given was that they can only give it to a couple of pension age .. then you get MP’s who on a fantastic wage they claim heating allowance and anything else they want ..Rayner is spending over £68,000 a year on a photographer Stalin Starmer has claimed over £100,000 and £10,000 for his son to study in piece and quiet for his GCSE’s this government is so much corrupt they need to go the lot of them shame on anyone that voted these communists in
@@JohnRayKing they are allowed to “claim back” money already spent on utility bills for one property if they have, because of their role in government, had to rent a second property.
If they didn’t rent then the chances are they would be continually claiming for rail travel / business miles or hotel bills instead.
@@nigelanscombe8658 they get enough money to pay for themselves
£20,000 for his son, I believe.
Unbelievable! Pensioners are targeted!
But that's the communist way. All the old communist countries had an elite ruling class who had all the privileges, and the drones/worker bees who had the bare minimum.
@@sandradavies7804 ...EXACTLY.
It's not just the £200 heating allowance that I worry about. Every time I turn my 10 year old telly on I worry that it will not work, when I put the washing machine on I worry that it will get through it's cycle and my gurgley old fridge freezer will last another summer. As for an electric car or a new fangled boiler?? At 72, who will lend me any money???
Junk the telly. Listen to the radio. Junk the washing machine and use the laundrette. Junk the fridge/freeezer and shop daily for fresh food. There. Problem solved.
@@grahamcook9289 many if not most elderly folks have mobility issues. How to access shops daily? Is there a launderette within easy reach? We live in a village with no bus service and one small village shop, for instance. Our nearest town which is 6 miles away, has no launderette. No banks now, either. Plenty of barbers, charity shops and coffee houses (which we can't afford to frequent).
I am on the old style pension (started work in 1960) and my small NHS pension takes me just over the limit. How come this NHS nurse, paid far more than I would have been as an auxiliary worker, has not got a decent NHS pension to help her out
Obviously decided not to invest in her pension
We don't know her full circumstances, she may have had a career break or worked part time in order to raise a family. Some people opted out of the NHS pension in order to use the money for day to day necessities. You will be aware that nursing staff were paid poorly in previous decades.
@addier44 It depends what you call 'poorly'. In the 80's and 90's it was still at least 3 times the pay of auxiliaries, ancillaries, and junior office workers.
@@Bezjc1936Yes these work groups were paid according to the grading structures in the 80s / 90s. In the 1980s my first wage as a qualified nurse taking responsibility for a ward and patients was about £600 a month. If you consider that well paid? I worked hard to train and pass my exams for my nursing qualification, my pay then as opposed to say, an auxiliary nurse, was to reflect my level of responsibility and experience. After retiring through poor health two years ago my NHS pension amounted to about £230 a week. I will also get a reduced state pension when I reach that age because paying into the NHS pension automatically reduced my contributions to the state pension. That is despite having worked and made payment to the state pension for over 40 years of work life.
@@janetholden1978 You get a decent NHS pension if continuous working.
Many circumstances unforeseen?
I am a retired nurse 25 years of it working in NHS, i did have a break in my NHS career but returned. I get 14.5k a year occupational pension . My Q is why did she not pay into that ,she would have been in a better place . Even so i still think removing the fuel allowance even for basic rate taxpaying pensioner is wrong.
It depends what her financial circumstances were whilst working, if there was a partner earning, if there were any extra dependents (disabled children, etc). She may not have been able to afford to.
She obviously decided to keep the money & not invest in her future
In the 80s when I moved out of the hospital to become a district nurse we were encouraged to take out my ‘superannuation’ and we had small children so I did take it out. Then when I first became a Practice Nurse in the 90s we were unable to pay into the nhs pension along with the other practice staff, but interesting enough the Drs could pay in. We were able to opt into it sometime in the late 90s, So I do have a small pension, but I’m not complaining, just saying circumstances differ as to how much Pension we get.
@Fabbydabby1 she maybe needed it, you don't know her circumstances
@@roseharper2648 I think a lot of people, especially women have been advised incorrectly over the years about their pensions. I keep saying to younger folks that i talk to including my own daughters, please provide for a pension otherwise you will regret it.
the pension credit threshold is designed to prevent those who need it the most to fall pennies short of the criteria
Hard winter equals burst pipes ! Big plumbing bills too 😮
State pensions should be same as living wage. We pay/taxed for years for state and private yet stung when it comes to paying out. Then taxed again
In 1908 when the State Pension was first introduced for those aged 70 and over, a woman of this age was expected to live on average an additional 9.3 years, and a man 8.4 years (1901), meaning pensions needed to last around 9 years.
In 2011 men and women at this age were expected to live for approximately 20 more years, meaning we need to make our pensions last more than twice as long as when they were first introduced.
Simply not affordable now is it.
Are you paying for it😂
@@jeremiahpoole6526So civil servants should work 10 years longer then
@@leehenry5764 More then that to get the sort of money they get.
@@jeremiahpoole6526 Bro 1908 was literally 103 years ago. The 10 year increase in life expectancy didn't happen overnight.
RAISE THE CUT OFF POINT OF WHERE PEOPLE CAN QUALIFY FOR WFA ,TO 15,000 SO THAT THEY POOREST PENSIONERS QUALIFY FOR THE WFA
Yes, cos they have created a new lower pension. Mad
@@judithmorganjudyteen Actually, they've created a new higher pension. The new flat rate is more than the one I get.
@@sandradavies7804I mean that
An apology don't heat your home.
But...where is her NHS pension?
She might have opted out, for some reason.
Automatic enrolment into a pension didn’t start until 2012. Before that, especially people who were part time, had to opt in. Many people didn’t understand this. I don’t know if this was her case, but it was more likely to affect women than men as part time workers.
@@macsmiffy2197 So, she could have up to 12 years of occupational pension if she worked from 2012 to 2024. I smell a rat. Why didn't they ask her about the NHS occupational pension?
@@grahamcook9289I don't think he knows her personally mate, but it was reasonable answer what he put.
@@leehenry5764 I don't know her personally either, but we do know she worked for the NHS for 25 years, so it is an obvious and reasonable question to ask her about the NHS occupational pension.
And yet they can pay 6000000 a 8000000GBP taxpayers money a day for illigal immigrants in hotels in the UK.
@@patrickmartens2507 Not forgetting their phones and free sim cards. Infuriating!!
And pay the same for oversea’s aid as they give to the pensioners why?
@@Annomous-58 Overseas aid should stop. Half of them are here.
Take care of our own British nationals before everyone else.
@@karenrobinson129exactly, do overseas pay the UK any aid? Nope 👎 so totally agree with you and Nigel , just vote for Reform UK 🇬🇧 and let’s get our country back 🇬🇧
This country is utterly disgusted with this disgraceful government
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THE KING OF ENGLAND IS NOT STEPPING IN FOR HIS ROYAL SUBJECT HIS PEOPLE OVER THIS GOVERNMENT
@YHWHSon-h8c I dare say there's a first time for everything.
Cos he doesn't give a toss
your king is too polite to intervene.
"it would look rude and undermine PM authority", your king probably think.
yoir Queen didnt intervene during Covid pandemic.
And she paid the price when they forced her to sit on her own.
😂
He is WEF just like starmer. So not going to happen.
Why bother having a KING !!!
This man is a millionaire how can he understand how we pensioners have to live to stay out of debt. I am older than this lady and did pay into the NHS pension scheme while I worked in the NHS so do have a small second pension but I will still have to make hard decisions to stretch my money and stay out of debt. Previous years I have paid my winter fuel payment straight into my energy account so I had credit over winter to keep my payments down.
Most people on tv are wealthy people but he also probably has other family members who could be struggling, it's good that this terrible decision by the governments is still being highlighted and kept in the news
I think it would to demonstrate the issue and problems for the individual
Yes, and look at his healthy tan. I bet he's been to the Caribbean recently.
Between him and his wife they have just about £10 million and they get free cloths and tickets to football matches and concerts and that is not counting all the benefits they claim like heating etc from the tax payers. Its iam ok jack and you OAP`s can suffer as i want more of your money for my and my wifes rich lifestyle.
This man is a millionaire…. So are over 25% of pensioners. Why on earth should millionaires be given a winter fuel allowance. In fact Richard Madeley is retirement age himself, should he be given the allowance? Means testing is long overdue.
Not as many countries in the world as bad to live in as England
Not just England my dear, the whole of the UK. And remember Scotland and Ireland a lot colder than England.
@@yasminscott113yep genuinely the worst country in the world
And what about those pensioners who look after grandkids in winter ?, Would starmer like to comment ?
Presumably their children will help out seeing as the grandparents are saving them a lot on childcare.
They chose to look after grandkids Let the parents help out
@@chrysalis4126shouldn’t have to
The prime minister has to make difficult decisions like which freebee to keep while pensioners choose whether to heat or eat.
And he used a lump sum very recently to payoff his Mortgage? apparently
The description states she was an NHS nurse for 25 years. So where is the NHS occupational pension.
What has her pension got to do with her getting WFP, I suspect that you believe that because of her pension that she might be too well off if thats the case how in your opinion do you define a rich pensioner bearing in mind that financial experts believe that £24k is the income needed to lead a reasonable standard of living
@@johnsidwell2241 I just ask what is the position with regard to her NHS pension? Does she have one? And if not, why not? Public sector workers are privileged to have such generous pensions, not available as a right to most non-public sector workers.Let's have a bit of honesty and full disclosure in the so called journalistic reports. That's all. Is it too much to ask for a bit of objective professionalism from these media multi-millionaires?
@@johnsidwell2241 on the pension scheme that she was on she would be getting about £15-20k on top even at the lowest nurse band as this was a very generous scheme that we can only dream of now in the new nhs schemes.
@@grahamcook9289 And we pay for them as a percentage of our salary they are not given to us before I retired I was paying 8%of my salary and it's almost certainly more than that now and the pension we get is taxed
Doesn't have one she said @@grahamcook9289
I still get the feeling Reid has not a clue how the other half live. She lives in a bubble. Pretending she can relate . How much money does she spend trying look younger. She's toxic.
There are NO WORDS 😢
Not what can be said on here or we’ll end up in clink❗️
She won't stand a chance. Starmer could not care less
Yes, worked hard all her life as an nurse, now has arthritis and no funds to keep warm. It's terrable.
@@AngelaDibble-qc2ot If she's worked for even just one or two decades with the NHS, she'd be over the threshold.
Unless she opted out of the pension...
Right...These politicians know...just couldn't give a monkeys.
@@AngelaDibble-qc2othow? £900 disposable income a month and can’t eat and heat? She’s spending it on something else.
@@AngelaDibble-qc2otMy mother is a retired nurse, she’s 89 & qualified in the mid 60’s. She has a nurses pension of £900 a month plus the state pension so I’m interested to know why Chrissy only mentions that she gets a State pension & nothing else. How odd.
I am surprised she did not have an occupational pension as I had one and am not much older than her. I have fibromyalgia and athritis and I like to keep warm. So that is a spanner in the works.. Mr PM was brought up in poverty and does not reflect that. Karma will come back and bite him on his bottom. This is the worst government I have seen in my 70 yrs
Same here and iam the same age and served for 16 years in the RAF.
Starmer will get his kama ....... But sometimes peeps like this never get karma
Erm, Mr PM was not brought up in poverty. It's widely believed that his father "the toolmaker" either owned the factory or was a well paid manager, well paid enough to send his son Keir to private school. Hardly brought up in poverty?
@@sandradavies7804 Exactly Sandra, well said.
@leanneswift2445 can't it go into you next life ?
Thank goodness I'll get an extra 25p a week when I turn 80 next year
Wow. You are lucky. I will get 5p 😮
Wow don't spend it all at once. The state pension in this country is disgusting the lowest in Europe.
Party time then lol
Many pensioners ,whilst not quite qualifying for pension credit ,have to pay ever increasing maintenance charges of sometimes £60 per week . As well as needing health costs . Starmer knows pensioners will not have voted for him so they do not count .
People will not vote Labour if they know this is going to happen.
Young people have pensioner parents and grandparents too.
Labour are rich and getting richer! Never mind the poor pensioners, freezing to death this winter.
@@wendybrierley5412 Starmer knows most pensioners will not vote for him ,so he does not care about their existence .
That is disgusting starmer you do not deserve to be called sir
That's how much they love and respect your NHS
She must have a NHS pension. ! This story doesn't ring true.
Yes, it is BS. Also no mention of the fact that her triple lock pension is going up by the same amount so she s in effect losing nothing.
She maybe never contribute d to one..
I think they chose to interview her because she was a nurse more clout they think
Do you know that or just guessing at it..Her circumstances are her business.
@@brigitnunez6735 But once you go on a TV you are making yourself public?
My 80 year old mum and I went cold last winter.. looks like it’s another freezing one .. hot water bottles .. layers of clothes and candles!!! I suffer from RA so it’s crippling! We only dream of the old days when we could be warm in winter! I despise these politicians! Get this bunch of grifters out and Reform in … let’s protect our own first and foremost!!!
Vote Reform next May in Council elections. We need an Opposition.
chrissy say's all they don't care about pensioners at all hit the rich or the mp's they won't have to think about eating or heating this winter all like all of us .
Small private pensions DO disqualify people from getting WFA...
It's not the fact that you have a pension though. It's the total coming in.
@@judithmorganjudyteen Which is very little...
@@oneoflokisI do know being 70, but people need the correct information . I don't want someone to not claim if they can
@@judithmorganjudyteen 🙂👍
❤@@oneoflokis
Strange an ex NHS Nurse without any Private Pension. Luckily our friends from abroad, who didn't pay in get Pension Credit and Winter Fuel Payment.
No point saving they will just tax it or take it
@@bowjana8128don't take that risk. !
I have a dehumidifier it's less cold in my house. Worth it.
Helps to dry washing too, I don't have a tumble dryer.
Yet how many billions were sent to Ukraine?
Ukraine being invaded by Russia
@@gavinsmith9564supposedly £600 billion to £800 billion spent on Covid, which caused house prices to rise crazily..
And zelensky is a multi millionaire 🤬.....
@@julielawlor5482 Ukraine was not invaded by Russia. Russia are undertaking a special military operation to liberate Russian people who have been persecuted and killed by the Ukrainian Govt since 2014 👍
Don't bring the Ukraine into this. They are in a much much worse situation than the UK. Gaza as well. 😢.
My pension is below the cut off point but I won't get fuel allowance as I have some savings. You will find that many pensioners have savings to cover their funeral as our grown up children are living paycheck to paycheck and we don't want to burden them. We also need a bit extra for Christmas presents and meeting old friends occasionally. However, this seems to be begrudged by politicians.
This!
@@evelynhillier2877do a pre paid funeral plan lovely take the money out of the bank so Starmer can’t get his hands on it
Agreed and by some people.
Mr Starmer Are You Happy Giving BILLION'S Abroad And Letting Down Our OAP'S Who Could Die This Winter.And Who Have Built This Country..🥶😡
Gammon post of the week.
@@Paul-eb4jp You are the Gammon of the week, you haven't a clue.
It's not just pensioners, the long-term unemployed, stay-at-home mums and even working people suffer all the same.
The government needs to nationalise energy and let the government pay.
Long term unemployed can get off backsides and work and they will get help
Absolutely no incentive to work anymore
...no incentive to live either...
Does the former NHS nurse not have an NHS pension in addition to her state pension?
Iam one of those people and i have COPD and iam down on E-0N as a vulnerable person which will mean nothing now.
Disgusting!!
Its gonna have to get to the point where families are going to have to set up go fund me's to receive donations for our pensioners. It a ridiculous state of affairs.
It's literally £5 a week they're losing....
@@Firegloit’s not the point is it? Labour are happy to give the money saved from the pensioners to oversea’s aid instead. It’s not right is it?
@@Fireglo the average amount of pension credit payable is £75 per week which works out at £300 per month in addition to the £300 winter fuel payment. That's £600!
@@Fireglo How do get that figure? £200 per household (£100 each for a couple) or £300 per household (£150 each if a couple over 80 years old)
@@lisaf7909 It's not £300 for EVERYBODY. £300 per house if the people are over 80 (£150 each if a couple), or £200 (or £100 each) if under 80 yrs old.
Wonder if any if these multi millionaire presenters helped her out, or the super rich producers...
Sick of the rich pretending they feel for the poor, complete joke.
Yes he gave her the change 😅😅😅😅
@@DeeLee-p8chow did he get to over a fiver anyway. ?
Nurses got a good private pension i dont understand this.
If she gets state pension and nhs pension shes well off ,doesnt she get nhs pension?
No
Maybe she was only a nurse for a few weeks!
We are not being told the full story here
Absolutely, there's plenty of nurses who are well off. One reason why people are kicking off is because they won't get a £300 annual freebie when they retire!!
While I'm sorry for Chrissy , I assume ( ex NHS / STAUNCH Labour ) she voted for these people , so , unfortunately , there we are.....I would suggest going forward , abandon these people and the Left-wing as a whole and use common sense as to which party is better for the country / people of her father.
What about people with brain injuries and mental illness. What do they do.
Doesn't matter if she is a penny over. There is a cut off and she exceeds it, which means she has enough money and savings, that she dies not need state handouts.
Chrissy, you will be less inclined to go shopping soon when Reeves takes away your Freedom Pass in the budget.
Please no, that will be the final straw
......never mind David........she can use "Shank's Pony" instead, much healthier too. I Jest!!
She also won't qualify for any of the other benefits she would have been entitled to. So what's the point of putting away a bit in a small pension only to have it robbed off you in your old age? These despicable people want you permanently poor in your old age. They are despicable and make my skin crawl...I detest them.
they should have looked into more it was rushed through i have the state pension and a private pension which is taxed its not a lot i am not affluent i worked as a nurse for 48 yrs i knew labour was bad news and they will start looking at taking more away while they get lots of donations from their over lords
Well I'm 70 in a few months and my husband is 76 soon and my husband has rheumatoid arthritis and gets the shivers even in the summer a don't no how thi gs will be in winter so am going 2 buy sum good thermals from my local market God be with you all 😒
The difference is Starmer doesn’t suffer personally from his difficult choices/decisions!!
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The thumbnail is slightly wrong.. It should say .. Choose to eat (go into debt), Choose to heat (go into debt) or Choose to save (freeze/starve to death). What a great country we live in go figure!
Whos paying for illegal migrants pensions
And all their incoming coming clan
ONLYHARD CHOICE STARMER HAS IS GUCCI OR VERSACE... SACK HIM NOW
I don't agree with the cuts in the winter fuel allowance but I don't understand this. If she is a former NHS nurse, she should be getting a fantastic pension. What is she doing with it?
Usual poor research by the TV company. They don’t look into peoples finances before creating a story. Like the “woe is me” benefit stories. I worked in a Jobcentre, with people with mild health issues. Many were getting £2,000 a month plus rent and council tax paid, free bus pass, free dental treatment, cold weather payments, free eye tests. And they all had the cost of living payments. Meanwhile I worked and cared for my pensioner husband.And we had less money
Yes why should we pay for Ukraine and asylum seekers when people in this country are not looked after. How long can we continue paying tax ?
Chancellor Rachel Reeves earns around £160,000 a year as a Government Minister. I survive on a state pension of £12,000 a year ... and she says SHE had to make difficult decisions. Well, now I have difficult decisions to make: FEED and FREEZE or keep the heating on and STARVE this WINTER! I am really NOT looking forward to the next few months ... if I make it.
I SHALL NEVER VOTE FOR LABOUR AGAIN!
I thought that pension credit was brought in so those older pensioners on a basic pension, which is less than the new pension, would not lose out. What wasn’t realised was that the triple lock and the freezing of the tax threshold, would take basic pensions above the tax threshold. The system needs reviewing FAIRLY.
Threshold could be changed
Where are her occupational pensions from working?
I am 88 years old. That's exactly what I thought, thankfully I get an occupational pension and my O.A.P which is stopping me getting any Winter fuel payments unde this Labour cut of Winter fuel allowance. I would have thought the NHS would have a pension fund for their employees.
That's what I don't understand they get a good pension through the NHS ,she doesn't make sense ,NHS pension + state pension= well off.
Yeah the NHS has a really good final salary pension, she is either lying or ignorant that she has her work pension and is over spending somewhere
When I started Nursing in 1985 the NHS pension scheme was optional.
Pensions have been protected against the cost of living for 14 years which cost the rest of society far more than £300 a year. The problem is the energy companies that keep putting the price up, just tax them and take them over.
The Labour Party have an agenda just not sure what it is and I don’t think they do either .😢😢😢😢😢
Yes they do. Their agenda is to turn this country to communism.
I thought nurses paid into a work pension
If you've worked and have an occupational pension you miss out on WFA. However if your only income is the state pension you qualify. Unfair.
It's a matter of the total amount coming in, not how many pensions you have
@@judithmorganjudyteen The ridiculous limit of £218 cut off for WFA is the lowest in Europe.
Oh yes, but no use misleading people who may then not claim@@thomasmorin749
Not on the new rate only the old one.
Agree@@thomasmorin749
I'm in the exactly the same boat, it's ridiculous. I have fibromyalgia and a heart and lung condition. Once I'm cold it's difficult to get warm, sadly I have had to get family to buy me an electric blanket and warm fleece so I can sit under a blanket rather than put the heating on..
Kier Starmer does not understand because he earned £400,000 last year and his wife approx £100,000 and he has only ever been a public servant. While have sympathy for Chrissy I would ask why as a former nurse she did not pay into the NHS scheme which is a great one. I have spent my whole life paying people in the public and private sector, and the number of women who take no responsibility for their old age has always frustrated me, and I say that as a women. If you were born before 1953, you could claim 60% of a state pensions based on your husbands contribution, so many women only paid married women's NI which was 3.85% rather than 12%, hence little pensions quite fair. Kier Starmer now and previous governments have made a good deal out of me and all the other WASPI women, when I retire next year , if I live that long six years late, I will have saved the Government £69,000, as one of the very last WASPI women I and those the same age as me have lost the most, they could have at least let us retire at 65, which was the age for men, and which even WASPI women understood as fair.
If she's a former nurse she should have a pension, the scheme before 2008 was especially generous. Why is she saying she only gets the £200+ state pension. She should be ok if she had invested in her pension. I work same as nurse salary in the NHS so I don't have to rely on the measly state pension. You have to also take responsibility for your own poverty if you didn't prepare for your old age too.
Its a pity she was not asked where her NHS pension has gone because if she worked for 25 years she will also receive a private pension. ??? think you picked the wrong example to interview.
You have to be in the scheme and pay contributions whilst you work
Some people opt out, because they can’t afford the contributions.
I was a civil servant and did not have to pay into the pension scheme. Only the last few years did it change. Nhs pensions are calculated to give you more than a civil service pension.
Fantastic show love from IRELAND❤❤❤
But if she'd worked as a nurse for the NHS for 25 years her NHS pension is going to be pretty generous. Surely she can't be saying she's JUST above the limit. How could she possibly claim pension credit if she's getting an NHS pension, which are notoriously generous?
She said she only had a state pension
@@judithmorganjudyteen That was my question. Why, if she'd worked in the NHS for 25 years? They have good occupational pension schemes.
@@sandradavies7804 don't know, but some people just didn't
Yep and hers would have been a finally salary pension which was ridiculously good.
I don’t think she is lieing though , why would she
Nothing together about it.
What happened to her NHS pension? Did she opt to take the full pension in a total payment. If she was a nurse then she would have got a NHS pension. My sister in law was a nurse and has an NHS pension. Why isn't she counting hers.?
Does not have one
It is virtually impossible to reduce your electricity and gas bills.
In summer 90% of my bills are standing charge and in winter at least 80% of my bills are standing charges.
As a result there is virtually nothing people can do to reduce their energy bills.
My direct debit for dual fuel is £53/month, and there is nothing I can do to bring the bills down.
If she was a nurse she worked in the public sector. She therefore probably voted labour. So tuff!!
It's a sad state of affairs when those not even from the UK are treated better than our own, who are now inconvenient simply because they are elderly.
I’m 75 and also have arthritis but I won’t be able to heat my house adequately. I pay £120 per month electric so she is doing well only paying £70 for dual fuel.
Claim attendance allowance not means tested age uk will help you fill out the forms
@@ywigganVery difficult to get.
Do you live in a one bedroom flat like she does?
@rosarose3443 It's not, the problem is the form, I just completed one for my neighbour she over 75 with arthritis and other health issues, she got it within 6 weeks.
@addier44 Is this question aimed at me? If so, no I don't understand what the size of her flat has to do with Attendance allowance
Heartbreaking to even watch this interview
Both my parents can't get pension credit either they are like chrissy
In 1908 when the State Pension was first introduced for those aged 70 and over, a woman of this age was expected to live on average an additional 9.3 years, and a man 8.4 years (1901), meaning pensions needed to last around 9 years.
In 2011 men and women at this age were expected to live for approximately 20 more years, meaning we need to make our pensions last more than twice as long as when they were first introduced.
Pension credit is unfair.
Threshold is too low
How long was she an NHS nurse and where is her NHS pension?
Will Chrissy say sorry to everyone that did not put him in power?
It is not just one person, that is why there are so many Labour MP. Can't blame Chrissy. She did not know
and many pensioners will not vote Labour again, now the true colour is out!
Don't vote for them in the local elections too, remember.
My mum and dad have paid into the system all their life, they are now pensioners. They are literally just under the threshold with everything ... they suffer more than those on benefits
What about her private pension that she must get from the NHS? They are usually better than the state pension? 🤷♀️
No must. You need to be in a pension scheme to benefit
I would never vote Labour again never
I am surprised she is in that position. Would she not be getting a decent NHS pension as well as the state pension. There should be some kind of means testing though and not the abrupt cut-off point that she and thousands of others are facing.
Move the threshold
Starmers a clear and present danger to the people of this county...where's the security services!!!
Would this lady not be eligible for enhanced pip as she has arthritis? I doubt shes existing on £218 per week. Something doesn't quite add up.Wait for the uproar, but there was no winter fuel allowance until the late nineties, my parents had to make do.