Does cold weather payments stop

fithgear wrote:

Thanks for your kind help bro58 I will. Check out that link.it seems so unfair if people like myself are going to loss out on cold weather payments.when we were promised we would not loss out when transfered from ib to ESA .

Hi fg,

Unfortunately, the ConDems concept of "fairness" seems to be totally different to ours.

Fairness

bro58

Fairness, not for state pensioners. From 'Fairness' link :

The Government confirms that the basic State
Pension will increase by 2.5 per cent in April 2013, higher than both average earnings
and inflation, in line with the commitment to the triple lock. As a result, pensioners will
see a cash increase of £2.70 a week to the basic State Pension in 2013-14.

Not for pensioners who pay Income Tax, our tax allowances were frozen last year for life.

So pensioners paying tax, will not receive £2.70 per week. After deducting tax at 20%
they'll get just £2.16 after 54p tax deduction.

Even only taking into heating costs, it equates to 0 or less as domestic fuel prices have risen by around 9%.

'We're all in it together" = total bull**** !