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Well I m 77 too and very happy to volunteer 3 days a week and also have the thumbs up that I m using their heating coffee and biscuits for almost half the week and coming home feeling fulfilled which I wouldn’t be sitting on a bus for 8 hours but of course in an ideal world it should be a choice but if I had the choice at 77 to ride around on buses all day or do something useful I know what is my choice
Perhaps the lady is very infirm in which case I can’t imagine sitting on a bus for long periods is an ideal way there must be other ways and we need to make our own adjustments if possible
We have a elderly persons club here and people often stay there for hours and get a dinner I m sure most places have somewhere like that even a warm library would be better
All I m pointing out is there are better ways of staying out the house than sitting on a bus in my opinion

There's a link here, not sure if you can hear it again:
www.lbc.co.uk/news/pensioner-who-takes-busses-to-keep-warm-disappointed/

merlotgran

Is there a link to the interview?

I can’t see one, just a link to his interview on Good Morning Britain.

youtu.be/QizGkU3HuOs

It was either on Andrew Marr or Eddie Mair’s show, and Bluebelle, she is apparently 77 years old, and surely people of that age shouldn’t have to find things to do to keep warm?
My point was that I wouldn’t think Gransnet users would be best placed to illustrate how the elderly dealt with rising fuel costs.

I think some elderly people who may be entitled to certain benefits are often overlooked by the system as they are too proud to ask for help and then they don't claim what they may be entitled too. They may have worked for years but in low paid jobs with no private pension and on basic state pension and no savings. I wish Boris had thought to answer by asking Suzanne Reid for this ladies details to be passed on to him and he would get one of his team to look into this ladies plight, instead of his stupid comment about being the person who introduced the free travel pass. Which apparently wasn't even correct. He is worse than stupid.?

Is there a link to the interview?

I understand that Elsie is now getting some support from Age UK Westminster. If that's where she lives, that would explain how her council house was banded F and why she won't automatically get the £150 energy payment. I hope they can help her claim any benefits she may not have realised she is entitled to.

I would think Elsie has mental health problems did it say how old she was because she could certainly be in the warm volunteering and in may cases get free coffee and biscuits
If she’s able to sit on a bus all day surely she could do something more useful with her time there are also elderly day centres drop ins warm dinners Salvation Army etc
So no I don’t think it’s normal for people on or off GN

I really doubt Elsie is a Gransnet user. The poor lady spends all her time on the bus - I doubt she even has a computer, let alone a laptop or iPad. I can’t understand how she is in this plight. Surely, she is entitled to some benefits and the recent £150 offered to all homeowners, Band D and under.

She doesn’t sound like a typical poster. If she was on GN I think she would have told us of her plight. No heating and one meal a day sounds a bit extreme.