what this government try to due with us are a SHAME !

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Im sure that we pensioners wouldnt need such payments if our pensions were better I get a pension from work because I paid into it all my working life and Im still paying my mortgage, I dont get any benefits only the winter fuel payment oh and dont forget the £10.00 christmas bonus. Im sure if we all had the pensions that Tony Blair is going to get we wouldnt want out winter fuel payment, as for putting the heating on when a cloud appears what rubbish, Ive got a new condensing boiler but Im still scared to put it on Ive invested in a Slanket, whish is a blanket with sleeves in to keep me warm, all you people who are moaning will one day be pensioners yourselves hope you have saved for your old age. If you have never worked you will get everything I worked 40 years and get nowt

I wasn't aware those living abroad received fuel payments.

My father in law was paid the winter fuel allowance in November 2005, which was fine except he was dead. But when I called to tell them , they said he was entitled to it as he was alive in the September of 2005. I ask you, is that not ridiculous. People who live in Spain and other overseas places also get it if they get the old age pension. I listen to all these good people who say they are entitled to it, I agree, but some are more entitled than others. I look after an old lady who is now in a private residential care home andshe gets £400 because shes 85. I might add she pays £1940 every 4 weeks for her care, so I think she should get it. However until we get rid of this odious government and fairness returns, people like us will be trying to reason why our taxes cannot be used more honestly and fairly. Don't knock our pensioners, the vast majority of them have worked hard all their lives, only for this stupid government to waste money like complete morons. I'm 54 not a pensioner.

Well said Portos! I agree with you completely....those who have never worked and made contributions get it all handed to them on a plate, most unfair!

Im sorry but i have to disagree with Disgusted of Kent on his point of .. Perhaps we Pensioners should not have bothered to fight for the country,The reason i disagree is ...soldiers of the first and second world war are a dying breed , harsh but true .. the retirement age at present is 60/65 so those of this age where only babies or not even born during those wars. Any wars that have come after 1945 such as the falklands where not part of national service and purely by choice. As another user commented on my earlier post about mobilty cars, someone is still paying for these cars , car companys are not giving them away out of the kindest of there heart so who is footing the bill for them ???????? im betting its the tax payer yet again.

I find comments like "why should I pay to keep Pensioners warm" offensive, Perhaps we Pensioners should not have bothered to fight for the country, and not bothered to make sacrifices to bring up ungrateful and SELFISH children. Perhaps you should just let your parents to freeze and go hungrey when they have lived a little too long for your liking ? Anyway, as regards to energy saving, Pensioners are probably the most frugal group in the country,with an ethic of Waste not Want not.

Means testing is the answer. There must be thousands of people out there with massive pensions and savings who receive this money each year. The amount they get probably means nothing to them, probably don't even notice it on their bank statement. I'm sure they wouldn't miss it.!!

Get shut of the Winter Fuel Allowance. OAP's waste fuel all year because of this, they turn the heating on when the sun goes behind a cloud. Why should we pay for them to be warm?