Bus pass time!
79 replies
IanH replied on 08/09/2016 20:42
Posted on 08/09/2016 20:42
Bus companies charge the council that the bus pass user lives in for the average cost of the journey undertaken.
I'm not aware of a fee for issuing the bus pass.
Apparantly, a third of all bus journeys are undertaken by people with bus passes.
People in London get the most from their equivalent to a bus pass (it's called a freedom pass, or similar). They get to use buses, commuter trains, underground and overground trains.
brue replied on 08/09/2016 20:52
DSB replied on 09/09/2016 00:16
KjellNN replied on 09/09/2016 02:15
DavidKlyne replied on 09/09/2016 09:33
Posted on 09/09/2016 09:33
I'm looking forward to my free TV licence next year, that will be a good saving too.
Bus Passes are a wonderful thing that give older people of all incomes freedom to get out and about. Free TV licences I just don't understand, there is no logic to them. Most people currently retired will have been paying for them for at least 10 years before they become free so what happens when they are 75 that requires them to get them free. I could understand free licences for people with sight impairment but struggle to see the logic for the majority. The responsibility for free licences is now with the BBC so it will be interesting to see how long they last.
David
Rubytuesday replied on 09/09/2016 14:23
Posted on 09/09/2016 14:23
We have bus passes, ours are for Wales only yet we very rarely use them , we travel in England most of the time and there not valued there , when you can use your English passes from lands end to up to the Scottish Borders, as for t v licience's I to wonder how long the Beeb will keep it up
Vicmallows replied on 09/09/2016 14:57
Posted on 09/09/2016 14:57
Pension Credit is a top up to the regular State Pension for those whose income fall below a certain level, so in effect the poorest pensioners.
David
It always annoys me that whenever 'benefits' of any kind are mentioned, it is always stated that they depend on INCOME
In fact your income can be very small, but if you have been prudent enough to build up even quite modest cash savings, then you will find you are debarred from practically all 'benefits'. If however you have spent the cash on an expensive car/caravan/yacht/whatever .....oh that's OK, you can claim!
IanH replied on 09/09/2016 17:01
Posted on 09/09/2016 17:01
The 'cut off' for many 'income related' benefits is £16,000 of savings - more than that and you don't get anything and less than that (down to about £6,000) the amount you have reduces your benefits.
It's a bit different for pension credit.
When you say that some people simply spend all their savings in order to get benefits, that doesn't always work. The DWP / HMRC see this as 'deprivation of capital'. If they believe that you've deliberately deprived yourself of capital to gain benefits, they can treat you as though you still have that capital.
robsail
Caravanner from Midlothian