Heating allowance

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  17 February 2010     11:5340871
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  14 million quid a year is paid out to UK citizens that reside in spain, greece and other warm countries.
  
  defeats the object surely?
• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  17 February 2010     12:0440872
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  Is that right? That we pay heating allowance abroad? Isn't it based on temperatures? I thought one of the problems was that the temperature needed to be below zero for a set amount of time, which is itself ridiculous as it can be below zero for 6 days with horrid consequences, but if it isn't below zero for tjhe full 7 days people do not get it. Silly.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  17 February 2010     12:2640874
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  the heating allowance is universal bern, you may be thinking of cold weather payments.
• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  17 February 2010     13:5640881
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  You are right, Howard - I had a senior moment that collided with a blonde moment. Not good!!!!
• Guest 690

  • Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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  17 February 2010     15:4240886
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  You`re a blonde Bern???
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  17 February 2010     16:3640895
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  Like the curates egg, Colin.............think about it.
• Guest 653

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  18 February 2010     08:1640946
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  My (other) brother and his partner live in Cyprus, about 20 minutes drive from Paphos and they get this heating allowance.
  
  I have said to them both that they shouldn't be getting this money, it's for people living here. Obviously they'll take it while it's offered, but it shouldn't be offered.
  
  I can't believe it's beyond the wit of man (or even politicians or civil servants) to stop paying this.
  They'll probably say it would cost more to set up a scheme to separate them, than to continue with the payments.
  
  The other payment that is worked out in a strange way, is pension payments to overseas (British) residents; why do some countries have the increases that they get at home and some don't ?
  I thought it might have had something to do with Commonwealth countries, but it doesn't so I'd love to know why the rises in pension doesn't apply to some countries, but it does to others.
  
  
  
  
  
  Roger