Done a pension credit test, put in £115 as pension and 60,000 as savings. Result would get £100.15 pension credit. Wish I hadn't worked hard enough to get a full pension as when I tried it with £221 as pension and £300 as savings it was thrown out. #50swomen#rachelreeves
Tues SCR 6pm Welcoming back the 1950's Women! Kris, Jackie & Dr Davina Lloyd, Back to 60's & CEDAW in Law's Special Envoy will update us & also looking to the future with a new Government! Also the 2nd song from Kitty Davies aka The Dove & The Dragon @SalfordCRadio@2020Comms
It’s meter reading week…
If you pay by monthly direct debit and don’t have a working smart meter, do an energy meter reading over the next week.
The Price Cap drops 7% on Mon 1 July. A meter reading means they can’t assume more usage was done earlier when it costs more.
Not for the first time @Nigel_Farage has played the media like a fiddle. It is the one thing he is very good at. But now that he has played his latest tune, they - and especially in this case the broadcast media - need to think long and hard about the role they have played in all this. Constant platforming without real scrutiny - of his role in Brexit, which he barely talks about now; of the financing of his party; of his contempt for the rule of law as shown in his sycophantic relationship with Trump; and now like the Tories pumping misinformation far and wide. Populism never works when it gets anywhere near power. It only gets as far as it does because “it makes for good copy.” But it can do a lot of damage to democracy on the way.
.@UKLabour says Govt has kicked #WASPI scandal "into the long grass, despite having months to respond, leaving so many in the dark." Exactly. And that's why, if elected, Labour has no excuse not to speedily resolve it. #commitforfaircompensation
https://t.co/Qek0rJyAzb
Surreal exchange with Sunak
Janet Street-Porter, "Why do you hate pensioners? That's the only conclusion I can come to as a result of the spring budget" @The_Real_JSP
"You lowered National Insurance by 4p.. Big deal.. Pensioners don't pay NI.. Then you froze the tax threshold.. So yes you gave us more pension, but that leaves a gap of only £1,000 before the basic average pension to the threshold to paid tax"
"So many pensioners are living in poverty, around 2,000,000. Most are living in private rental accommodation.. So there's an argument that pensioners have come our worse"
*Rishi Sunak is smirking as she says this*
"Worse under the Tories, worse under you. As a pensioner, what I see is are pensioners who would like to take extra jobs to make ends meet, to buy little treats, to go out once a month, to put petrol in the car"
*Rishi Sunak takes a sip from his mug*
"But if they earn any money. More than £1,000 a year, and go above that threshold, they're going to be paying tax. Now does that seem right?"
Rishi Sunak, "So, Janet, I care deeply about pensioners.. It's really important to me personally.. It was a Conservative government that introduced the triple lock"
Janet Street Porter, "I'm not criticising that"
Rishi Sunak, "We've protected the triple lock.. That means the state pension has gone up by £900"
Janet Street Porter, "I know, but so has the cost of basic living.. You have supplied pension credit, but, there's so many people never claimed them"
Rishi Sunak, "All pensioners recieved double their winter fuel payments.. State pension has gone up by £900, far greater than inflation and price rises.. About that pensioner who wants to earn that little bit extra, they don't pay National Insurance.. So they aren't paying tax on that work"
Janet Street Porter, "Well they are.."
*Rishi Sunak talks over her so she cant repeat the point she just made about earning above the threshold and having to pay tax*
“Mr Sunak. Just one more thing. There’s something bothering me. Actually my wife noticed and told me to ask you.
Taxes are higher than when your government came into office and public services are broken. Where has the money gone Mr Sunak? How much has gone to your VIP friends?”
What’s so difficult @MelJStride ? The Ombudsman has made it clear that #WASPI women are due compensation. Just get on with it. Any delay is “undue delay”.
https://t.co/4GmEnYuW3w
Thank you for pressing the Minister @edballs#WASPI women are used to @MelJStride usual stalling for time brush off. Shameful treatment of #1950swomen & disrespect for the governments own watch dog @PHSOmbudsman.One more #WASPI woman dies every 13mins while we await his statement
PRIME MINISTER: PRIME MINISTER TO OVERTURN SUPREME COURT'S DECISION: PROVIDE FULL RESTITUTION FOR ALL #50sWOMEN - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/BavqFb3y1y via @UKChange
@InsleyLynn Thank you Lynn ❤️
There has already been more info in the media about this important change than ever was available to #50sWomen (for an even bigger, more impactful change) in place of the lack of any communication from #DWP, despite what the flawed (IMO) #PHSO report may suggest