Angela Rayner has encouraged Rachel Reeves to strip middle-class families of child benefits payments, it has been claimed. The Labour Deputy Prime Minister urged the treasury to ‘claw back’ the benefit from families where the highest earner’s annual earnings were between £50,000 and £80,000, The Telegraph first reported. If taken forward, the decision would undo an announcement by the Tories in March 2024 thatContinue reading “Rayner Urges Rachel Reeves To Strip Middle-Class Child Benefits”
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Due To Pension Rule, DWP Pays £500 Million To Dead People
More than £500 million of taxpayers’ money has been handed out to dead people in just five years because of a pension rule – and families do not have to give it back. In response to requests for an immediate systemic change, a government minister acknowledged the magnitude of incorrect payouts in previous years. TheContinue reading “Due To Pension Rule, DWP Pays £500 Million To Dead People”
A Pensioner, 70, Worries About The Winter
A pensioner has said he is ‘scared for the winter’ because he can’t afford to put the heating on as Labour prepares to scrap the winter fuel allowance from millions. Simon Moss, a 70-year-old retired customer service assistant, is facing a harsh winter ahead in his cold housing association bungalow. He already limits his shoppingContinue reading “A Pensioner, 70, Worries About The Winter”
BENEFITS FOR CHILDREN
Based on the child credit component of the previously rejected Health Government’s Tax Credit proposal, which would have abolished PAYE and integrated tax and benefits, Barbara Castle established Child Benefit in 1975. It has long been a necessary component of our lives, and everyone has the right to it—even those with higher incomes than othersContinue reading “BENEFITS FOR CHILDREN”
Pensioners Should Be Taxed More: Rachel Reeves, Tax Tsar
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s new tax tsar previously called pensioners ‘codgers’ who had it ‘ridiculously good’. Sir Edward Troup, a former Tory Treasury special adviser, also said it was ‘ridiculous’ that pensioners received free TV licences and argued for them to be taxed more. His remarks became public earlier this month following his appointment byContinue reading “Pensioners Should Be Taxed More: Rachel Reeves, Tax Tsar”
A New Welfare Clampdown Will Force Housebound And Mentally Ill People To Work From Home
People housebound with physical and mental conditions will be told to look for employment they can do from home or face having their benefits cut under hardline welfare reforms. Under plans to be unveiled by Rishi Sunak, they will be told that being unable to leave home is no obstacle to finding work, thanks toContinue reading “A New Welfare Clampdown Will Force Housebound And Mentally Ill People To Work From Home “
PARLIAMENT AND STATE PENSION
The British State Pension is far too low, we all know that. It needs to increase and be put back to anyone aged 60. If the Government put pensions up to £380 a week, it should lift thousands out of deprivation and give our senior folk more spending power and help boost the economy. However,Continue reading “PARLIAMENT AND STATE PENSION”
There Will Be A Delay In Retirement For 8.5 Million Workers
Almost nine million workers will be forced to wait longer for their state pension if the Government increases the retirement age to 68 in the mid-2030s. The state pension age is presently set at 66 and is in the process of increasing to 67, and it’s legislated to increase again to 68 between 2044 andContinue reading “There Will Be A Delay In Retirement For 8.5 Million Workers”
Don’t Make Elderly People Choose Between Heating And Eating
MPs have been asked not to make the elderly choose between heating and eating by suspending the pensions triple lock in a Commons vote. The mechanism ensures the state pension increases by inflation earnings or 2.5 per cent, whichever is highest, but the Chancellor wants to delay the earnings link for a year because lastContinue reading “Don’t Make Elderly People Choose Between Heating And Eating”
No 10 Hints State Pension ‘Triple Lock’ Will Be Watered Down
Downing Street delivered another hint that the state pension triple lock could be watered down amid concerns over COVID warping of wage figures. A spokesperson for the Prime Minister said they recognise people’s concerns about the prospect of the mechanism resulting in an 8 per cent rise, squeezing the public finances even further. No 10Continue reading “No 10 Hints State Pension ‘Triple Lock’ Will Be Watered Down”
THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO 