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Rumour of cutback in Telephone allowance scehem in budget

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  • 08-12-2009 1:30pm
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    Sponge Bob
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    I have heard that the government is looking at cutting back the Telephone Allowance from €26 a month to €20 a month ..I am unsure whether the latter is ex vat or gross. If ex vat they are only cutting from €21.50 to €20 in effect.

    Their attitude is that all the mobile networks and even NTL now supply a package for €20 a month with calls included and that there is an alternative to paying €26 line rental.

    They are also looking at the TV Licence and considering reducing that allowance to €100 or €120 a month ...so the beneficiary of the allowance pays less than €1 a week on the balance.

    We shall all know tomorrow.


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    Victor
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    I think this is reasonable. The cost of comms has come down and there is need for those savings to be passed on to the government.
    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    Their attitude is that all the mobile networks and even NTL now supply a package for €20 a month with calls included and that there is an alternative to paying €26 line rental.
    The mobile networks have been benefitting from teh scheme for several years.


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    PogMoThoin
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    Why not give just them a tenners fone credit and let Eircom die, 80 million saved with one stroke of the pen


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    Cabaal
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    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    Why not give just them a tenners fone credit and let Eircom die, 80 million saved with one stroke of the pen

    some people want a phone line so they can get ADSL....I know my parents do :)


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    Sponge Bob
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    Untouched in the end. Lots of elderly people have DSL nowadays. I know 80+ year olds with Skype .


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    Cabaal
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    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    Untouched in the end. Lots of elderly people have DSL nowadays. I know 80+ year olds with Skype .

    We all know Midband products are not a suitable replacement for ADSL ;)
    Glad they didn't touch it


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