Your Personal Income Details Given To Private Companies.

[polly]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

Am I missing something here. If you're partner is working how does the other one calim benefits ? Or are you classing tax credits as benefits ?

Non means tested sickness benefits

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by emamum23

since i seem to be one of the people that this is aimed at since i am on benefits and spent more than 10% of my income on gas and electric, guess i better stick my two penneth in..... I am on benefits so all my income details are already shared with the government (as are everyone elses), i have gas and electric in my house so.... my information is already there... i dont see how this will be any different, apart from the fact that the government tell them they have to give me the best deal, that will save me money! GREAT!

Ah! But your energy supplier doesn’t know what your income is and where it comes from and nor should they.

It’s the thin edge of the wedge emamum23, the thin edge of the wedge.

If this government is so all fired up about people not being able to afford the energy that they have to use then the solution is simple. Stop wasting our taxes on non essentials and reduce the tax on petrol, diesel and heating oil and on the energy itself. They could up the benefits and pensions a bit more too.

The real problem in this country is how the taxes are spent and on what.