We are reading that Ian Duncan Smith has decided that people living in Spain should not have their Winter Fuel Allowance. The reason given that its obscene that we get it.
Nor only is this unfair and discriminatory but without foundation and reason apart from cynical electioneering. We have all paid into the tax pot all our lifes and now cost the UK government and the NHs nothing . Has he ever lived in Spain? Then he would know that large parts of Spain get snow and minus temperatures. Most UK citizens living here are retired and are relying on this money to pay their heating bills in the winter. Can the present government really afford to loose several hundred thousand votes?
UK ex pats are currently saving the Britishtaxpayer in the region of £2.5b as year by not claiming UK based benefits such as bus passes, tv licence waiver etc. the paltry saving by stopping our WFP is surely not worth the lost votes to the government!