Pre-Autumn Statement 2024: Key Questions on Pensioner and other Benefits
This blog will be updated regularly in the run up to the Autumn Statement at the end of October. I'm planning to ask a series of key questions on 'X' (Twitter in old money), then attempt to answer them myself in this blog, in more detail than X will allow. Why ? It's important that we all keep this Government's 'feet to the fire' to reduce the risk of losing any more of our precious and hard-won benefits..... See also my recent blogs for more details on this topic: https://vivweb01.blogspot.com/2024/07/labours-war-against-pensioners-where.html https://vivweb01.blogspot.com/2024/09/update-on-pensioner-benefit-changes.html Here's the first offering for the pot: 1) DWP have identified 880,000 pensioners who they 'believe are entitled to Pension Credit'. Why don’t they do the decent thing and simply award these folks the benefit, without forcing them to fill out a 230-question form ? Comments: The answer is almost certainly money....and to an...