Old people will freeze because of Winter Fuel Allowance cut to fill invented ‘black hole’ – and Labour knows it
The Labour party’s cut to the Winter Fuel Allowance will kill around 4,000 pensioners this winter – according to the party’s own research.
Labour’s excuse for the cut to the vital benefit, which gives pensioners £250-600 toward heating costs, is the supposed – and apparently invented – ‘black hole’ in the national finances, a ‘hole’ that is a pinprick in the national expenditure of around 1.2 trillion pounds and one that the government could create money to fill, if it actually existed, at the click of a key, or with a small tax rise on the wealthiest.
Other government statistics show that the cut is aimed primarily at over-75s, at women more than men and at those living in the north most of all:
That is an incredibly biased article trying to make lots of very complicated things sound really simple, which that are not.
I was chatting with some pensioners moaning about this yesterday, I had to remind them that they were virtually all very wealthy and didn’t actually need the money to heat their homes.
One lady really did need it but she was on pension credit, so was going to get it either way.
The most vocal was a lady who had multiple private pensions and had recently inherited £200k from her parents.