Sorry, guys, but Mrs Jacket isn't (quite) 65 and we've been receiving this for four years now. Looks like it's 60 after all (sorry, Rog). Check out the Power Tzar's website here:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Pensionsandretirementplanning/Benefits/BenefitsInRetirement/DG_10018657I am a 'toy-boy' and so don't qualify in my own right.
That said, I'd rather a little of our money goes towards the fuel bills of the undeserving affluent than have the many poor souls who really
do need it get mired in the hell of means-testing. For example, have you seen the forms for Pension Credit?? After all, it's not as if these wealthy folk don't pay
into the pot as well....... As for the elderly families of immigrants receiving benefits etc, I suspect that's just Daily Mail and/or Murk-doch hokum to keep Middle England topped up with xenophobic outrage and avidly buying their noxious rags.
There was some ex-TV producer ranting on the Beeb a couple of nights ago about not needing his WFP. He said he lives in a posh house in Surrey and that he's getting a six-figure income even in his retirement.
If he's that bl**dy clever how come he doesn't know the address of Help The Aged?
I rest my case, m' Lud.
FLJ