Winter Fuel payments in the tropics?

[anotheoldgit]

At a cost of £10m, Is it right for those elderly British who have chosen to live abroad either in Spain or as far away as India and the Caribbean, can still receive their Winter Fuel payments?

[Bobbisox]

I would say...why not?
they have paid into the system like you and I, so that would be positive discrimination

[Booldawg]

may as well give them disability benefit as well. They have paid in after all.

[Bobbisox]

only if they are disabled, and in that case they would get it anyway

[jake-the-peg]

They can in the EU

They can't be descriminated against just because of where they live.

There could be a regional system introduced where some sort of formula based on average temperatures seen that year would trigger payments in that region (The Scots would vote for that!).

[Bobbisox]

I may have to be corrected on the latter assumption, I think you would have to reside in the UK to claim the disability allowance, someone maybe could clarify this one

[Sqad]

Ho! ho!..I send my Winter Fuel Allowance back to the UK to be distributed to the "more needy"

[jake-the-peg]

I suspect changing the system would cost at least £10m

That really is a surprisingly small amount of money given there are 10.5 million pensioners

Are you sure that number is correct?

[DEN53]

Well we let immigrants claim for child benefit and the kids don't even live in the UK and have never paid a bean into the system. So I think British expats should get the heating benefit.

[Bobbisox]

like the chavs who think work is a 4 letter word sqad?

[Bobbisox]

Hi DEN this is a school photo of me, do you like it?

[Sqad]

bobbii ;-)

Den...keep looking at your photo......just my type.;-)

[Bobbisox]

and you mean I'm not sqad
positive discrim there I would say..pmsl

[DEN53]

Ha Ha Joy - I bet the shaving before going to school was a bummer .....


Sqad - I only took this photo of me last week - not sure if this is a compliment from you or not - as I know you fancy anything with a pulse.....(;0 (

[ummmm]

Den...I wasn't allowed to claim child benefit for my daughter when she moved to Ireland to go to college.

[DEN53]

morning ummmm - I think now its because of this Europe thingy that they can claim benefits for kids back in Poland etc.

[Bobbisox]

would that be because it was S Ireland ummm, I think if it were today you prorobaly would have been able to as we are in the EU, I know Poles and E Europeans working here can because of their entry in the EU

[ummmm]

Yeah...but I can't claim for my daughter in Ireland. Even though she's in full time education. So can the Poles?

[Bobbisox]

not sure about that one ummm, so, have you to pay yourself for her college education is there no way Ireland can help out, I assume that is her birth place? and she is resident there

[redman41]

It gets damned cold in those Shacks at night aog !