“Winter fuel allowance... it almost seems like a joke.” Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Richard Thaler on the advice he would have given the Chancellor about cuts to the winter fuel payment. Listen to Radical with @amolrajan on @BBCSounds or watch on @BBCiPlayer

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Nov 6, 2025 · 7:00 AM UTC

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Thaler certainly looks quite wealthy … so I guess he’s happy to take this away from others less comfortable than him. Cut of for WFP should have been anyone who pays 40% tax. There’s a lot of old people above pension credit level who aren’t wealthy.
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This government think that £45,000 GROSS defines a working person. It looks like are about to make an already complicated tax regime even more complicated - increase 2% and drop 2% to raise more money? Labour & Rachel are economic incompetents🤬