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um Oct 2023 2:42pm, 20 Oct 2023 7,812 posts	0 um I came home from holiday today to find a letter notifying me of the £500 winter fule allowance. Which should just cover the house we rented for the last week. One of the perks of ... old age, not retirement (I did miss it in my first year on state pension, the cut off is mid September and I was born 2 weeks too late)
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Oct 2023 2:48pm, 20 Oct 2023 39,482 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) I had same letter yesterday
Nick Cook Oct 2023 2:53pm, 20 Oct 2023 36,517 posts	0 Nick Cook I had same letter yesterday I got mine today! 😁
Velociraptor Oct 2023 3:18pm, 20 Oct 2023 65,913 posts	0 Velociraptor The lad on the checkout in Lidl this week managed to turn my one bottle of shower gel into 297 bottles. Fortunately, we both noticed. I still took my receipt to check for other mistakes.
Nick Cook Oct 2023 3:35pm, 20 Oct 2023 36,518 posts	0 Nick Cook I worked on the tills in Tesco on a Saturday when I was at school/college, in the days when everything had a price on it , and we had to manually enter the price on the till. It took me a few weeks before I realised I was typing the price per pound for cheese rather than the actual price of the piece being bought!
Shades Oct 2023 3:39pm, 20 Oct 2023 1,203 posts	0 Shades Received my letter re winter fuel allowance today too. Last year I spent it on my hotel bill for a weekend in Dublin. Not going away, as recovering from injury, not sure how to spend it yet .
DoricQuine Oct 2023 4:03pm, 20 Oct 2023 9,475 posts	0 DoricQuine We were both more or less thrown into retirement so just have to make the best of it. I've just had to resign myself to the fact there are things that we would have wanted to do that won't happen now.
Velociraptor Oct 2023 4:24pm, 20 Oct 2023 65,916 posts	0 Velociraptor I'm just trying to get to grips with the fact that the fuel allowance only just covers the cost of a hotel bill for a weekend in Dublin. (I'm some years away from getting the fuel allowance.)
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Oct 2023 4:36pm, 20 Oct 2023 39,483 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) My £500 will go towards treating the family while we are in Australia
Ness Oct 2023 4:37pm, 20 Oct 2023 35,273 posts	0 Ness Mr Ness gets the winter fuel allowance. [ advantage of being married to a proper OAP. Don't tell him I said that though! 😉😂]

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