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Post by moonraker on Apr 22, 2024 17:15:29 GMT
Thames Water want to hike their prices by 44%, telecom providers are raising renewal fees by inflation plus 3%, car insurance premiums for older drivers are doubling, and in a few years costly heat pumps and e cars will be all but mandatory. How many pensioners will be unable to afford all this? (And some of them will be forking out for private hospital treatment out of desperation.)
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Post by badersleg on Apr 22, 2024 19:31:28 GMT
Thames Water want to hike their prices by 44%, telecom providers are raising renewal fees by inflation plus 3%, car insurance premiums for older drivers are doubling, and in a few years costly heat pumps and e cars will be all but mandatory. How many pensioners will be unable to afford all this? (And some of them will be forking out for private hospital treatment out of desperation.) It's the same for everyone though; at least some pensioners have the option to downsize and release some funds. It's worth shopping around for telecoms and insurance. You can get internet and line rental for under £20 p/m. Green heating will only be mandatory for homes built after 2025 and there are no plans to make e cars mandatory. My mother in law is a pensioner. She's only worked for five years yet she moans about having to pay tax on her pension (in between casual racism and reading the Daily Mail)
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Post by adrianc on Apr 22, 2024 21:42:37 GMT
How many pensioners will be unable to afford all this? Why is it always "pensioners"...? Apart from a decade and a half of the pension triple lock, at a time when many people's real income has fallen, there's house value wealth. That's the main reason why more than one in four over-65s lives in a household with net wealth of more than £1m. To turn that round, a large majority of households with net wealth of more than £1m have an over-65 in them... Well, they are the demographic that's most likely to vote for the party that's gutted the NHS...
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Post by bernythedolt on Apr 26, 2024 11:09:27 GMT
How many pensioners will be unable to afford all this? Why is it always "pensioners"...? Apart from a decade and a half of the pension triple lock, at a time when many people's real income has fallen, there's house value wealth. That's the main reason why more than one in four over-65s lives in a household with net wealth of more than £1m. To turn that round, a large majority of households with net wealth of more than £1m have an over-65 in them... It's neither sinful nor surprising that the demographic who've worked the longest have amassed the largest savings and/or property wealth. Those successful wealthy pensioners you apparently hold in contempt still pay their fair share of income and other taxes. As for the triple lock, it safeguards some of the poorest people in the land. Remember the state pension is only something like half the national minimum wage, so no committed socialist should ever resent the triple lock, for many pensioners their only glimmer of hope.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 26, 2024 11:21:58 GMT
Why is it always "pensioners"...? Apart from a decade and a half of the pension triple lock, at a time when many people's real income has fallen, there's house value wealth. That's the main reason why more than one in four over-65s lives in a household with net wealth of more than £1m. To turn that round, a large majority of households with net wealth of more than £1m have an over-65 in them... It's neither sinful nor surprising that the demographic who've worked the longest have amassed the largest savings and/or property wealth. Those successful wealthy pensioners you apparently hold in contempt still pay their fair share of income and other taxes. As for the triple lock, it safeguards some of the poorest people in the land. Remember the state pension is only something like half the national minimum wage, so no committed socialist should ever resent the triple lock, for many pensioners their only glimmer of hope. ? Who said anything about contempt? I'm merely pointing out that "pensioner" is not the same thing as poor. We know that this government do not care one jot about people in poverty, only those most likely to vote for them.
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