No one knows why me included and to be honest I don’t care because the financial loss is peanuts, I just wish people would stop whinging about it especially on a thread about the current problems here.
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Surely SIL should not be receiving WFA if they have a CdS as they are no longer UK resident??? Or am I missing something?
It may be insignificant to you but to many people it is a lifeline.
Oh come on, £200 is not a ‘lifeline’ to anyone on SF.
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you know that for a fact then @tim17 or are you wildly speculating again…
If one of your clients owed you the equiv of £200 in Euro year on year but refused to pay you, how might you react I wonder?
That money would pay for a significant amount of winter fuel - it’s intended purpose 
Sometimes, I really wonder why you retain your membership of SF since I seldom, if ever, see you contributing very much of use - mainly just negativity.
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Beg to differ there. Widowed suddenly relatively young and have had to depend on the french social security system ever since and €200 would be a big bonus to myself and other brits in the same boat and there are a lot here. Peanuts it certainly isn’t when it can make a big difference to paying your bills that ever increasing! People who brag about not needing such an amount shouldn’t, their circumstances can change overnight too and end up in the same boat
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That’s rude and overpersonal Graham, maybe think about editing?
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If.
Not France residents. Obtained WA CdS by selectively interpreting the forms declaring ‘régulièrement résidents’ to mean “visiting regularly” rather than what it actually translates as, “resident by the rules”. Thus facilitating unlimited visits to France, and EU whilst maintaining UK residency status. Basically fraud.
There seem to have been quite a few opportunists who took advantage of France’s easing for UK residents to obtain safe status post Brexit.
Maybe soon AI will begin to help cross reference departments, data mining Immigration for the Fisc, closing the noose.
but not ad hominem and is my true feeling which I am at liberty to express.
@tim17 knows my sentiments.
That would entail the UK government being in direct contact with a French supplier wouldn’t it? Not sure how that would work.
Oh come on, £200 is not a ‘lifeline’ to anyone on SF.
Maybe not to you, but it is around 20% of our electricity bill. Of course it can’t literally be a lifeline, otherwise we would both be dead by now.
But we might even not be dead if we didn’t have our pensions, doesn’t mean that we should not receive what we are entitled to though. .
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Reckon thats how the bloke in the old commune got away with it too, always coming and going but refusing to change tax system. We were always warned by the mairie never try and buck the system, it follows you everywhere and leaves a very long trail or paperwork.
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No it would stop all payments outside of the country .I don’t agree t hat you are entitled to every benefit going because you might have payed into the system. The reason being that a choice was made and you can’t expect to be payed out when you don’t live there.
I’d say that was borderline, Graham : “you contribute negativity” is pretty personal and slightly subjective whether comments ate actually negative or just realistic.
Your call, just seems a shame to lower the tone by having posts that strike as me as unnecessary to air publicly
. I’m sure many people think all sorts about members, but remain discret in the interests of a happy site. It’s what I hate about FB that there is so much name calling.
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Seems to be getting worse.
Some new members, or old lurkers, launch diatribes completely unprovoked. An open forum is a risky place in these angry unedited times.
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Quite. It enables social lubrication. There are some SFers I’d like to meet and for the one that I have it was a real pleasure, but by the same token there are some I hope never to meet in meatspace. I’m sure the same is felt by some towards me, and that’s completely fine.
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That’s rich coming from you, when have you ever said anything positive about the UK, sorry ‘plague island’?
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On so many occasions @tim17 but you seem to miss those because they don’t match your agenda 
But of course, let’s not confuse the readership with the fact that this is a forum principally about France and much of what I say and do in this place is pure positivity and supportive content about France - the purpose of this forum after all in case you hadn’t noticed that. If you’d prefer me not to contribute to SF, just say so and I’ll give it careful consideration.
I don’t subscribe to any UK forums but if I did, my message would the same and if I met you in person, it would also be the case.
We clearly have a dislike for each other so best left at that.
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And yet by post 6 on a thread about the strikes here a comment about the UK winter fuel payments starts the ‘we all hate the UK government’ line and off we go again.
I have no feelings either way, you and many others dislike me because I push your buttons and dare to challenge the flock.
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OK, we get it, you both don’t like each other and that’s fine, but can we move on please and stop the tit for tat. Thanks.
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That would be fine if it was made clear back in 1999, when I came here to live or any other date you care to mention before 2016. But we were all led to believe that we were British, British pensioners, British workers and as such remained so with all the rights bar one, that we had been promised over the years. But why on earth do you arrive at the conclusion that where we live should diminish those rights? Doesn’t make sense. I suppose if Scotland gained independence you’d be against English people settled there for years keeping all their rights too.
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