The New Falling Fine for Pensioners

lahadaextranjera

lahadaextranjera

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pensioners-charged-26-falling-fee-7033931

Absolutely disgusting! They pay a huge amount of tax their whole lives to cover their health costs, the National Health Service, just to be told that if they need assistance they will have to pay £26 for falling over at home.

This is an awful penalty for what was once a good country. People already have to pay a Council Tax each month which should cover services such as this. They get very little pension as it is and many live in fuel poverty which means they can't afford to hear their homes. Very sad state of affairs.

Disgraceful.
 
curious2garden

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lahadaextranjera said:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pensioners-charged-26-falling-fee-7033931

Absolutely disgusting! They pay a huge amount of tax their whole lives to cover their health costs, the National Health Service, just to be told that if they need assistance they will have to pay £26 for falling over at home.

This is an awful penalty for what was once a good country. People already have to pay a Council Tax each month which should cover services such as this. They get very little pension as it is and many live in fuel poverty which means they can't afford to hear their homes. Very sad state of affairs.

Disgraceful.
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The root cause for many falls in the elderly is bad vision. Basic vision coverage in Medicare was the point of my research. It appears we were doing $50K total hip replacements for falls instead of cheap ass basic glasses that would have prevented a majority of them, decades later still no change.
 
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lahadaextranjera

lahadaextranjera

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pabloesqobar said:
But that's £26 a year, right? I understand they pay out a lot already, but that will hardly cause a hardship.
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No, it's each time they fall over. It's a new tax and it takes advantage of poor old people who already paid a lifetimes worth of taxes.

We have a National Health Service which is paid by the people's taxes so this is an unnecessary penalty.

There's loads of taxes, income tax, council tax, road tax, tv licence tax, VAT and now a falling over tax.
 
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pabloesqobar

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lahadaextranjera said:
No, it's each time they fall over. It's a new tax and it takes advantage of poor old people who already paid a lifetimes worth of taxes.

We have a National Health Service which is paid by the people's taxes so this is an unnecessary penalty.

There's loads of taxes, income tax, council tax, road tax, tv licence tax, VAT and now a falling over tax.
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Ok. The article you posted must've made a mistake. Twice, they said it was an annual fee. But I suppose that could cause a hardship.
 
Jimdamick

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lahadaextranjera said:
No, it's each time they fall over. It's a new tax and it takes advantage of poor old people who already paid a lifetimes worth of taxes.

We have a National Health Service which is paid by the people's taxes so this is an unnecessary penalty.

There's loads of taxes, income tax, council tax, road tax, tv licence tax, VAT and now a falling over tax.
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Thank the Tories for that
 
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