thewanderer
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Not going to get into that debate again on here but my point was that they have done and are not going to do any thing to increase supply. They're just expecting people to take the brunt of their inaction.
Energy support from April
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Johngannonsunderpants
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I would be better off on benefits in the future I'm sure of it. My bill is already going to be £3700 now with my old boiler and massive freezing cold victorian house. Can't afford a new boiler, windows etc, but can if I were to lose my job.
We will have to wait and see, but if they just shove this onto the average worker politically they will be finished and I doubt they will last two years as a government.
Colgates_shaving_foam
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The tories are obviously just using another tactic to tank the economy.
Leaking this is going to have a big impact and depress Christmas spending as people correctly decide to hang on to money that they will need for energy bills. Cutting off support to low and middle income people causes a deeper longer recession.
Leaking this is going to have a big impact and depress Christmas spending as people correctly decide to hang on to money that they will need for energy bills. Cutting off support to low and middle income people causes a deeper longer recession.
Ex Footy Legs
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And power produced from renewable sources costs virtually nothing to make and the government allows them to sell it at the prices as if it were made from expensive gas.
Uk public getting totally ripped off
MolteniArcore
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I didn't know you got free boilers and windows on benefits.
ThatFragranceGuy
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Not sure about windows but there are (or were) boiler schemes managed by energy providers.
That said you'd almost never be better off on benefits than working, although it can sometime feel like it. Life on benefits is hard unless you believe the media / stereotypes. I'm all for supporting those in need, I just feel like they're it the only ones that will be struggling. Yes, afford more pay more, and not even adverse to tax rises to fund better services but feel like lot of people will be on squeezed incomes because of mortgages and energy cost and there will be very little support for them, but we're in it together.
Our heating has been in for 3 hours this year and our house is cold, we can afford it but we are choosing to not overspend in case of worse times ahead so warm clothes it is. But when it gets colder we'll put it on as we don't want damp - lot of people won't have that option. At current process it's almost a quid an hour for heating which is wild. I used to berate my girlfriend when the smart meter said we hadn't spent over £3-4 a day combined, I'd kill for that now
MolteniArcore
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Not sure about windows but there are (or were) boiler schemes managed by energy providers.
That said you'd almost never be better off on benefits than working, although it can sometime feel like it. Life on benefits is hard unless you believe the media / stereotypes. I'm all for supporting those in need, I just feel like they're it the only ones that will be struggling. Yes, afford more pay more, and not even adverse to tax rises to fund better services but feel like lot of people will be on squeezed incomes because of mortgages and energy cost and there will be very little support for them, but we're in it together.
Our heating has been in for 3 hours this year and our house is cold, we can afford it but we are choosing to not overspend in case of worse times ahead so warm clothes it is. But when it gets colder we'll put it on as we don't want damp - lot of people won't have that option. At current process it's almost a quid an hour for heating which is wild. I used to berate my girlfriend when the smart meter said we hadn't spent over £3-4 a day combined, I'd kill for that now
I work in benefits - people are never better off. They might not have to work 37 hours and they might be only a few hundred quid a month worse off but that says more about the person than the system.
Personally I'd rather work and get a little bit more. Nowadays though you can't just give up work - they will sanction you to the hilt and if you have a mortgage you would risk losing your home.