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31st August 2013, 10:30 AM
#11
Brian, i am not on benefit of any kind, well, i suppose bus pass, old age pension, but i did get free cavity wall insulation, i think iam right in saying everyone over 70 years can get this. no free boiler for you or me though KT
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31st August 2013, 10:30 AM
#12
Re: Free Solar Panels.
I don't receive benefits,I get the OAP plus this pension credit which I get I suppose I get because I paid into it.I was in a none contributory pension scheme,it wasn't going to pay a great deal I finished early and took a lump sum.Anything going for nothing I will take and I certainly wont feel guilty over it,both my wife and I worked bloody hard all our lives and paid taxes.
Regards.
Jim.B.
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31st August 2013, 10:49 AM
#13
Re: Free Solar Panels.

Originally Posted by
Captain Kong
My Combi boiler is over 12 years old, needs a new one. ............... five immigrants all on benefits are getting free cavity wall and loft insulation and a new gas boiler.
Whats all that about? I work and pay and they get the freebies.
I wonder what benefits these immigrants are on,where did they get the money to buy the house,do they own the house. Incidently being on benefits does not qualify you for a boiler it has to be a certain benefit which I don't think that they would be on if they have never worked.The guy that earned the big money paid big taxes so good luck to him.
Regards.
Jim.B.
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31st August 2013, 10:50 AM
#14
Thanks for the input.
I will have to make some inquiries about it.
Cheers
Brian.
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31st August 2013, 11:00 AM
#15
Re: Free Solar Panels.
well one of the things the present government is trying to do is knock these benefits on the head......people who have never worked with a squad of kids demanding bigger houses and living of thestate all there lives.....while people who work all hors and gamble there savings and houses as collateral to run businesses get nothing except higher taxes.....and if the bussines goes down lose every thing the system needs to change but bour masters are to busy trying to be world statesmen .....they feed the world but not there own
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31st August 2013, 11:09 AM
#16
Re: Free Solar Panels.
Its surprising how many so called 'freebies' are available to old aged pensioners, but only if you are on benefits! what an upside down world we live in. Apparently waste your life, pay no taxes of any description and you are entitled to the world, where-as those of us who didn't booze or smoke our lives away are entitled to virtually nil, well nil really as a bus pass is a concession for all oldies regardless of income. I worked until I was 73, paid my taxes, still paying on my State pension and am entitled to nothing. I wasn't entitled to 'free' roof insulation as I had taken the precaution of insulating myself at my own expense in earlier years at a standard above so called legal requirements. As for cavity wall insulation, that wasn't free either as had to pay a hefty supplement as there was a budget for applied sufficient for 2 bedrooms max and I had the misfortune to have 3 bedrooms and the extra cost is based on the largest bedroom and not the smallest.
But I can go to my grave happy in the knowledge that I don't owe anybody a penny and have never scrounged from the system, but doubt it will be a passport to heaven as those are reserved for those on benefits!
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31st August 2013, 11:23 AM
#17
Re: Free Solar Panels.
like your last paragraph itsabout right I guess .....
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31st August 2013, 11:26 AM
#18
Re: Free Solar Panels.
Because I've had a free boiler fitted certainly wont stop me from going to my grave happy,bloody hell you would think that I had committed murder.
Regards.
Jim.B.
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31st August 2013, 11:33 AM
#19
Re: Free Solar Panels.
nobody has said otherwise jim so go happy but not too soon
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31st August 2013, 11:55 AM
#20
Congratulations on your new Boiler Jim, at least you have paid for it in a lifetime of work and taxes.
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The other one is The ****** immigrant buys a house via the Mosque who buy it for them, they can repay at leisure with No Interest. So they bring down the price of property, get it cheap and then No Interest payments.
The money at the Mosque, and the building of the Mosque is provided by the Wahabis of Saudi Arabia, It is Oil Money.
It is to make sure these people are staying as part of the world dominence of *****.
It is time our Governments gets wise to this ,
Cheers
Brian.
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