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We're talking about someone who's retired though earning 875 a month. If you're retired and you're earning money then that must be coming from something you own a business or some sort of asset.
It's not a huge amount of money I know but they must have other assets to be able to get any kind of income that isn't a pension.
Privrate pension is included.
And it makes no difference where the money comes from. It is all your income. So everything you have to live off.
Right but this is a fund explicitly intended for people who don't have a lot of money. If you've got a private pension you've got money.
The whole point is so that you don't start to suffer from surprise expenses like large heating bills because the weather suddenly gets very cold. You're not supposed to be trying to live off that payment.
It's daft that it isn't means tested, my grandmother for example when she died had over 2 million pounds in the bank and yet she used to get cold weather allowance.
There are two arguments to have here, one is whether or not it should be means tested, and the other is what the limit should be.
Utter a total rubbish.
If you have a private pension, you have had a job at some point.
If that pension is paying less the 900 a month, you have put very little into it.
Stop being so darn short sighted.