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Title: anyone else get one
Post by: Richie London on 04 January 2010, 16:42:39
12 quid gas voucher sent in post. should last me a week at the current temperature outside.  :y
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: MickAP on 04 January 2010, 16:44:58
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12 quid gas voucher sent in post. should last me a week at the current temperature outside.  :y

Why? please tell more ;D

Mick ;)
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: Richie London on 04 January 2010, 16:53:39
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12 quid gas voucher sent in post. should last me a week at the current temperature outside.  :y

Why? please tell more ;D

Mick ;)

im with southern electricity on a preypayment card. cold weather payment  :) :)


Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: MickAP on 04 January 2010, 17:30:52
I hope to be getting £100 from Npower soon, for changing over to them.
Still robbing b****** :-X


Mick ;D
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: Richie London on 04 January 2010, 17:32:05
dont all the pensioners get one every year  as well steve??  ;)
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: STMO999 on 04 January 2010, 17:33:39
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dont all the pensioners get one every year  as well steve??  ;)


I'm so old I got six. :y
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: Richie London on 04 January 2010, 17:34:17
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dont all the pensioners get one every year  as well steve??  ;)


I'm so old I got six. :y


 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: jereboam on 04 January 2010, 17:37:21
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dont all the pensioners get one every year  as well steve??  ;)

Don't need to be a pensioner - just survive to 60. 

They sent me £200 a couple of years back, but they forgot last year, and I haven't actually heard from tm this year either.  B*st*rds!!!
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: STMO999 on 04 January 2010, 17:42:27
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dont all the pensioners get one every year  as well steve??  ;)

Don't need to be a pensioner - just survive to 60. 

They sent me £200 a couple of years back, but they forgot last year, and I haven't actually heard from tm this year either.  B*st*rds!!!


Thought it was 65, with a higher rate at 80.
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: STMO999 on 04 January 2010, 17:43:23
No, just checked. 60.
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: jereboam on 04 January 2010, 17:45:08
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dont all the pensioners get one every year  as well steve??  ;)

Don't need to be a pensioner - just survive to 60. 

They sent me £200 a couple of years back, but they forgot last year, and I haven't actually heard from tm this year either.  B*st*rds!!!


Thought it was 65, with a higher rate at 80.

Nope!  Sex equality and all that.  Women get the money at 60, so men have to as well.  Same with the bus passes and free presciptions. :) :) :)
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: STMO999 on 04 January 2010, 17:46:19
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dont all the pensioners get one every year  as well steve??  ;)

Don't need to be a pensioner - just survive to 60. 

They sent me £200 a couple of years back, but they forgot last year, and I haven't actually heard from tm this year either.  B*st*rds!!!


Thought it was 65, with a higher rate at 80.

Nope!  Sex equality and all that.  Women get the money at 60, so men have to as well.  Same with the bus passes and free presciptions. :) :) :)


Well, make some calls then. £400, not to be sniffed at.
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: jereboam on 04 January 2010, 17:53:07
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dont all the pensioners get one every year  as well steve??  ;)

Don't need to be a pensioner - just survive to 60. 

They sent me £200 a couple of years back, but they forgot last year, and I haven't actually heard from tm this year either.  B*st*rds!!!


Thought it was 65, with a higher rate at 80.

Nope!  Sex equality and all that.  Women get the money at 60, so men have to as well.  Same with the bus passes and free presciptions. :) :) :)


Well, make some calls then. £400, not to be sniffed at.

Yeah - I have.  I hate talking to these people.  But it won't be £400.  £200 for last year, OK, but last June the wife was 60.  She's now had a letter saying she's entitled to Winter Fuel Allowance, but will only get £125, as there's another person in the household who is getting the allowance (me, I presume). 

I haven't had any letter.  Neither of us have had any money.  As I said before - b*st*rds!!!
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: STMO999 on 04 January 2010, 17:55:14
They usually come over all cooperative when citizens advice phone for you.
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: jereboam on 04 January 2010, 17:59:49
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They usually come over all cooperative when citizens advice phone for you.

As it happens, I'm talking to them in a couple of weeks time about some help with another set of b*st*rds altogether :)   Just hope their advice turns out to be more valuable than last time, when they told me to contest my redundancy.  That cost me £650 in lawyer's fees to no effect whatsoever. :(
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: STMO999 on 04 January 2010, 18:01:40
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They usually come over all cooperative when citizens advice phone for you.

As it happens, I'm talking to them in a couple of weeks time about some help with another set of b*st*rds altogether :)   Just hope their advice turns out to be more valuable than last time, when they told me to contest my redundancy.  That cost me £650 in lawyer's fees to no effect whatsoever. :(


Mention that, it may gain you some leverage. I mean, the least they could do is help you get some of it back.
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: albitz on 04 January 2010, 18:03:16
Got free gas and leccy for the next 12 months. ;) :) :) :-X
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: jereboam on 04 January 2010, 18:07:37
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Got free gas and leccy for the next 12 months. ;) :) :) :-X

Banged up or taking the cure? :) :) :)
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: albitz on 04 January 2010, 18:10:55
Neither. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: Pitchfork on 04 January 2010, 19:29:48
My wife & I both are now both 60 & both received £125 each winter fuel allowance, mine by cheque & hers along with a pension payment. In a house the size of ours should be spent in a couple of weeks!
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: albitz on 04 January 2010, 19:32:23
You could wrap up warm and send me both cheques asa down payment on the Strat. :y ::) ;D ;D
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: Pitchfork on 04 January 2010, 19:35:46
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You could wrap up warm and send me both cheques asa down payment on the Strat. :y ::) ;D ;D
Still thinking about it & possibly selling my '55 Strat as well
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: MikeDundee on 04 January 2010, 20:10:43
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12 quid gas voucher sent in post. should last me a week at the current temperature outside.  :y

Why? please tell more ;D

Mick ;)

im with southern electricity on a preypayment card. cold weather payment  :) :)



Funny I am with the same firm, and have'nt had one of those, are you over 65 then?
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: Richie London on 04 January 2010, 20:36:48
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12 quid gas voucher sent in post. should last me a week at the current temperature outside.  :y

Why? please tell more ;D

Mick ;)

im with southern electricity on a preypayment card. cold weather payment  :) :)



Funny I am with the same firm, and have'nt had one of those, are you over 65 then?

at the moment i look it, havent had a shave for 3 weeks.
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: albitz on 04 January 2010, 20:37:47
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You could wrap up warm and send me both cheques asa down payment on the Strat. :y ::) ;D ;D
Still thinking about it & possibly selling my '55 Strat as well
:o :o :o Thats not a guitar mate,thats a bloody good pension fund.Your a very lucky man if you have one of those. :y
I would be willing to do a deal for it. I will give you my strat/mig/ cbr600/merc/both kidneys (one non functioning) both lungs and both grannys (admittedly long since deceased). :y ::) ;D ;D
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: Jimbo B on 04 January 2010, 20:46:59
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dont all the pensioners get one every year  as well steve??  ;)


Yes we do but you don't have to be 65 to get the payment ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: Pitchfork on 05 January 2010, 10:47:35
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You could wrap up warm and send me both cheques asa down payment on the Strat. :y ::) ;D ;D
Still thinking about it & possibly selling my '55 Strat as well
:o :o :o Thats not a guitar mate,thats a bloody good pension fund.Your a very lucky man if you have one of those. :y
I would be willing to do a deal for it. I will give you my strat/mig/ cbr600/merc/both kidneys (one non functioning) both lungs and both grannys (admittedly long since deceased). :y ::) ;D ;D
Let me think about it!
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: Pitchfork on 05 January 2010, 10:48:24
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dont all the pensioners get one every year  as well steve??  ;)


Yes we do but you don't have to be 65 to get the payment ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
No you have to be 60 (equal rights with women)
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: The Red Baron on 05 January 2010, 10:53:16
has anybody a link to a site for this please. :y
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: STMO999 on 05 January 2010, 11:20:43
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has anybody a link to a site for this please. :y


http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/BenefitsTaxCreditsAndOtherSupport/Inretirement/DG_10018668
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 05 January 2010, 13:20:48
This year you will get £25 when the average temperature where you live is recorded as, or forecast to be, zero degrees Celsius or below over seven consecutive days during the period from 1 November to 31 March. Specified Meteorological Office weather stations are used to obtain this information.

Was talking to someone the other day, they reckoned it used to be over 4 consecutive days.
Title: Re: anyone else get one
Post by: Tony H on 05 January 2010, 19:23:51
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Got free gas and leccy for the next 12 months. ;) :) :) :-X
So have I, having just bypassed the meters ! ;D ;)