Quote Originally Posted by Stovicmiller View Post
Seems some people live in ivory towers on here. I live in greasbrough and just down the road from where I live there is an old peoples complex basically bungalows and I don’t see any of these people living a life of luxury with assets of around a million, suspose it depends where you want to get your information from .Did not labour’s own figures suggest 4000 old folk could die ? But let’s just ignore that.
Nobody has suggested that all pensioners live 'a life of luxury with assets of around a million'. Quite the reverse, it has been said that some pensioners don't need the benefit and others do, hence the means testing.

Back in September, frog told us about his in-laws who apparently used the fuel allowance to pay green fees. Do you think it fair that working people - some of whom will be low earners and perhaps struggling to bring up a family - should subsidise their golfing through their taxes?