BBC News – Thousands more pensioners to get help with energy bills

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An extra 200,000 pensioners will get help with their energy bills this winter, the government has announced. The Warm Home Discount Scheme – paid for by the energy companies – is now worth £140 per household. The scheme is being expanded, to include everyone who receives Pension Credit Guarantee. Pensioner groups welcomed the move, but […]

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Re: BBC News – Thousands more pensioners to get help with energy bills

Pity us who saved small extra pensions ( albeit robbed by Brown & co) cannot get any help yet the income is little yet taxed and the same amount of income as those on the pension credit yet they get everything and we do not get a penny, also 2nd person on JSA & because of no other seekers allowances still get nothing// those that get the extra get the benifits