State pensioners who own a car face new 'kick in teeth' from Labour
State pensioners who own a car have been warned they face a NEW kick in the teeth from the Labour Party government. After losing the £300 Winter Fuel Payment, state pensioners - born before 1958 - face a fuel duty hike to compound the £300 sum being axed.
Pensioner Judith Briggs says she'll be foreed to 'cut down on a meal or reducing the size of meals' after cuts to Winter Fuel Payment and the fuel duty hike. The tax has remain frozen for more than a decade, but could be scrapped by Chancellor Rachel Reeves next week.
The 72-year-old told the Sun newspaper said she fears pensioners and working people are not being protecte. An increase of 5p or even 10p in fuel duty for Judith would mean "cutting down on a meal or reducing the size of the meals."
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She added: "Everything seems to be hitting pensioners at the moment, particularly. We don't have an opportunity to earn more money. Where are we going to get extra from? We can't claim anything because we're just so over the limit.
"We've paid a pension at work for the privilege of having a little bit more than the state pension, and now we're being penalised for it." In a message to the Chancellor, Judith urged her to "stop attacking pensioners" and to go after the people "earning the big money."
Fuel duty has been frozen since 2011, and the 5p cut brought in by the Conservatives in 2022 has been extended at every subsequent Budget. The current rate is 52.95p a litre, but there has been speculation that, after over a decade, the rate could be increased for the first time.
The Chancellor could opt to reverse the 2022 5p cut, but some analysts have suggested she could announce a 10p hike which would bring the rate to a record-high of 62.95p. Simon Williams, the RAC’s head of policy, has said that he believes the Chancellor will have “no option” but to consider a rise of at least 5p, adding that the Chancellor knows the 5p discount is “losing the Treasury £2bn a year”.