{"id":172752,"date":"2025-06-10T10:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T10:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/172752\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T10:57:10","slug":"better-off-scottish-pensioners-able-to-opt-out-of-fuel-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/172752\/","title":{"rendered":"Better off Scottish pensioners able to opt-out of fuel payment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said it was up to the Scottish government how that money was spent, adding the current Scottish version of the payment had been partially financed by a \u00a35.2bn devolution settlement increase from Westminster last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he said he did not agree with the decision to make payments regardless of income, given the pressures on other budgets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The government in Scotland made the decision to give that limited public money to millionaire pensioners and we don&#8217;t think that is the right principle when public funding is tight,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But you can&#8217;t have it both ways, you can&#8217;t say that public funding is tight and make the decision on the money they have got available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got one in six Scots on NHS waiting lists, they&#8217;re not spending it on that, we&#8217;ve got an increasing education attainment gap, they&#8217;re not spending it on education, so Scottish voters have the right to ask where it is being spent and why is it not being spent on their priorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said it was up to the Scottish government how that money was spent, adding the current Scottish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,474,2499,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-172752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-personal-finance","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114658714782529783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}