owendirkshift.bsky.social
#FND
Lightweight socialist who only uses an anonymous avatar because he's not too photogenic, and would rather laugh than do politics.
However, if politics is your thing...
(Also, Owen Dirkshift isn't my real name.)
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What's there not to like!
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My heart bleeds....
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Grand a seat? I'd go!
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Ooh, that's interesting. My better half is in the same boat. I might revisit that. I assumed that it counted towards her income.
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As for "deserving". That's probably my bad. I should have used the word "qualifying". No slight was intended.
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As to guessing? That's all that you are doing. I'm just being more optimistic than you are.
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My wife isnt of pension age. I never said that she was. She's on a private pension which pays more than the £155 that is, I believe, the maximum that anyone can earn and still claim CA. I just used her as an example. But I'm happy to be put right.
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Ah, that makes sense. Her state pension was, quite literally, about £1.28, or some such. So she would have qualified for most of it anyway. Obviously, she lost it when he died, but I don't remember the trigger for that.
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Lincoln did that, and look what happened to him! Or am I guilty of stating the obvious?
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Actually, that's wrong. She got CA when he got AA.
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I know that my dad got it when he was 84 and dying to look after my mum, who was 81 at the time.
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Is that the case now?
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Disability payment *should* take over if PIP is lost! Frankly, if both PIP and Disability payment are lost, then I can't see how carers allowance is applicable anyway!
But my guess is, (and it's only a guess), very few, if any, deserving cases will lose PIPs. To be honest, we won't know for a while.
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Your right, but Attendance Allowance kicks in and that's worth exactly the same, but isn't means tested. Why they don't just combine the two benefits I have no idea.
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Proves my point. If you can't get it through PIP, you can get it just as easily with other benefits, which will apply if you can't get PIP.
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I'd like to see evidence of that, rather than just rhetoric. As far as I am aware Carers allowance isn't tied into PIP specifically. My wife can get Carers allowance for me, if it weren't for her pension being too high, but I don't get PIP.
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Oh, you are joking, of course!!!
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Most Americans can't read subtitles...
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I get it too, but well under £35k, and I still don't *need* it, and i know that avg. salary doesn't equate to average pension. But don't you think it ought to? I do. And if it did, then we wouldn't need the WFA!
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It's a very specific theatrical phrase, that means something very specific. Specifically.
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Average salary seems about right to me, and that's what £35k is, roughly.
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None of that works with the super rich. Their accountants just find another loophole.
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You can't stop people doing what they want with money. Especially the super rich.
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How do you tax an offshore account?
That's the whole point of having one!
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Guess what. You can't. Once shut, faces cannot be restarted. They collapse completely in a very short time. Chocked or not ...
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The "entire economy"?
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No.335 of things that never happened!
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Best make sure that there aren't any trains with grain trucks anywhere in the vicinity!
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At least he can give us all the satisfaction of resigning again!!!
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Gramps taking his grand daughters off on a day out for a special treat!
Aw, isn't that sweet...
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I hate to say it, but basically, it's because the average American is a bit thick.
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Well, go to the foot of my stairs! Never saw that coming...
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Pretty much the same in the UK. Ironically, I got it twice. Both times after all lockdowns and limitations were called off.
Not had it since, and rarely see anyone else reporting that they have it.
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Has he not seen the footage of Mariupol?
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Well Bibi have a nice life.
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Parliament hasn't stopped it, in fact they have countenanced it already.
As to your second statement, I'm sorry, but I just don't understand what any of that means, other than I'm selfish for having a POV. No disrespect, but I'm guessing that English isn't your first language.
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I did, and my point still stands. There's nothing to stop that happening now, and in some, if not all, cases it already does, (medical records, driving licences and vehicle information, for instance).
If it's going to happen, and as I said, it already does, I'd rather have some advantage myself.
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We kindof almost do that now.
Ring up the NHS; do they ask for your NHS number - no! Ring up DWP; do they ask for an NI number - no! Ring up DVLA; do they ask for your driving license number - no!
Well, they may, in all cases, but your postcode, house number and name is usually enough!
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I did read the stream, but I still can't see how linking data that the government already has, and can easily link anyway, can do any harm. If that means carrying one card, (digitally or on plastic), rather than half a dozen different docs then that can only be a good thing, surely!
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I wouldn't have an aversion to tying them all together into one record. It wouldn't reveal anything that they don't know anyway, and would be easier all round.
Not sure that it would do any good mind you, but it would be easier and wouldn't do any harm.
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Why not just have a single digital record that cover all gov.uk sources. We are all used to using our national insurance number, driving licenses, bus passes, passports etc, as proof of identity.