Breathing For Life - Winter fuel payments (help)

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Ian
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Re: Winter fuel payments (help) (24th Feb 12 at 11:49am UTC)
Sorrry Howie should have made that clearer the Warm Home scheme which pays £120 of energy bills is only available to pensioners on tax credits and disabled on means tested benefits, the cold weather payments are added regardless of income so that people such as people such as Peter Stringfellow are embarrased to have the payment made to them, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11981522
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Re: Winter fuel payments (help) (24th Feb 12 at 9:11pm UTC)
They are Howie or if they are on a state pension. It's one per household so Les and I have to share ours. He gets it one year and I get it another. Cosy....................not!!!!
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Re: Winter fuel payments (help) (24th Feb 12 at 9:21pm UTC)
warm front and cold weather/winter payments are paid on different criteria...they are distinct from each...as Ian says above I get one but not the other, as my nest of vipers is still @ work.......
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Re: Winter fuel payments (help) (26th Feb 12 at 2:42am UTC)
Hmmm, tis very confusing is it not So does Les keep warm one year, then you keep warm the following year Melle Im happy to take any payments stringfellow doesnt want Now, our Amy is getting £120 knocked off her gas bill, so that might be the other payment mentioned earlier. All she had to provide was A letter confirming she gets top rate mobility A letter confirming she isnt working A drs letter basically confirming she is disabled A photocopy of her blue badge inc date it expires And a partridge in a pear tree. All in a small envelope, which couldnt take all the stuff she needed to send
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Re: Winter fuel payments (help) (26th Feb 12 at 11:18am UTC)
Warm Home £120 payments were scheduled to be paid to the first 40,000 people that applied to each energy company so getting all the info in an envelope before everybody else does is important and the list will be carried forward to next year. Getting onto the scheme early and doing what is necessary to stay there is the only lifeboat still afloat
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Re: Winter fuel payments (help) (28th Feb 12 at 1:47am UTC)
Now you see how smart my daughter is Ive taught her well and sometimes a university education just doesnt even teach these important life skills
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Re: Winter fuel payments (help) (28th Feb 12 at 10:04am UTC)
Every reason to be the proud father, Tesla will be a greater challenge though
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Re: Winter fuel payments (help) (2nd Mar 12 at 2:03am UTC)
Pft, youre right there, Tesla is going through that difficult teenager stage Never tidies his room, throws stuff all over the floor, up all night, well, you know how it is However, he is a very good hoover with feet, drop some biscuit crumbs and he clears them up immediately
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Re: Winter fuel payments (help) (15th Mar 12 at 12:24am UTC)
Just as well that since Christmas its been like an early summer here in Newcastle, what happened to the coldest winter on record (hope I don't regret saying that)
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Re: Winter fuel payments (help) (15th Mar 12 at 9:58am UTC)
Just enjoying it and not tempting fate
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Re: Winter fuel payments (help) (16th Mar 12 at 11:00pm UTC)
Well, its been pretty cold here. But at least we only had a bit of snow, so thats better than last winter
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Re: Winter fuel payments (help) (16th Mar 12 at 11:17pm UTC)
You are right it'snow joke being cold, hibernating for the winter is the best way of keeping warm
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Re: Winter fuel payments (help) (16th Mar 12 at 11:21pm UTC)
I agree Im mid hibernation at the moment
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Re: Winter fuel payments (help) (9th Jul 12 at 11:32pm UTC)
Tories plan to axe pensioners' benefits http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tories-plan-to-axe-pensioners-benefits-7924940.html
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