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WFP and claiming Pension Credit

(27 Posts)
Primrose53 Thu 29-Aug-24 20:14:04

Now that Labour have scrapped the Winter Fuel Payment for most pensioners many people on here have been advised to apply for Pension Credit.

The forms have 143 questions! My parents have both gone now but never in a million years could they have coped with that.

IMO deliberately designed to put people off applying.

mae13 Fri 30-Aug-24 04:46:26

Harris27

It’s to put you off applying!

Indeed, it is engineered deliberately to deter applicants, as is the sneakily cultivated idea that Pension Credit is charity - that would put off many who are proud to have worked many, many years, have paid their way and are disgusted to be reduced to pleading for a 'charity' handout.
Unlike those who almost make a career out of investigating all benefits available, actively apply for the lot and concoct elaborate fairy stories for the JobCentre about all manner of hurdles which prevent them from working.
But, honest, they really would if they could.......yeah, right!