No because I have a mortgage, dependants and other costs associated with going to work.
They don't just get £1k per month though do they because they also get a bus pass, housing benefit, free TV licence, council tax discount, free eye tests, prescriptions, insulation and heating schemes, care allowances, the WFA etc.
The people that need help get help.
There is a black hole in your critical thinking (I don’t mean to be rude).
Plenty of new pensioners have mortgages still. They were ripped off by the endowment scandal and had to convert interest only mortgages to capital repayment and are still paying. Home owners still have repair bills to their homes, insurance does not cover where you fail to upkeep your home.
You say you have a mortgage, so did pensioners back in their 30’s, 40’s 50’s they got on with the issues they faced back in the day, they did not expect the previous generation to pay for their generations, they expected government to do so.
Government eroded the living standards of people back in their day too and paid financially the consequences. I do not know how old you are but if you have family you may inherit from, you’ll welcome that with open arms no doubt and use it to make your life better. Many don’t have the luxury you want for your kids as they worked hard on low wages and lived in council houses. Some did not buy even though they could because they were happy as they were.
It is all about poor me. The facts are that the council tax burden about to hit eradicates the pension rise making them far worse off, while workers enjoy increasing salaries at higher rates and so the gap gets bigger and the unfairness rises. It costs a single pensioner more to cook a meal than a family of 4 per head. When you factor in energy, food bought in bulk is cheaper, single people will experience more waste if they tried that. Pensioners have to replace washing machines, fridges, TV’s, carpet, furniture, crockery and other household essentials goods too. Can you imagine what it would be like for a pensioner on say £15K a year with an increase of £566 in council tax, loss of heating allowance and say a double glazing unit fractures due to the argon and temperature pressures causing it (i have personally just had that happen, not covered by insurance).
What if a washer breaks down or their fridge, a fault on their toilet, bath, shower. Don’t they deserve a night at the bingo or the local club too? It seems that once you hit 67 in this country, nobody really cares, the NHS rations treatment due to age and health. This blokes family don’t visit as they live in the South, he gets a phone call once a month from his son there are plenty of others suffering like him because people are so self centred.
So many issues get taken for granted and cost never get factored in. I know someone who can’t afford to pay their home contents insurance, they are not family, a near neighbour. I am paying it for this coming year from November, he was burgled 3 yrs ago, the worry would kill him off, its a disaster waiting to happen, poor old soul has next to no life, doesn’t drink or smoke, I am making a rod for my back but can’t see suffering, which in turn will affect me on occasion now.
the problem is the cost of means testing and the fact the bar is set far too low on means testing. We are not talking about people who make poor life choices here generally, we are talking about poverty. 
