Lord Sugar: 'Don't 支払う／賃金 me winter 燃料 money'

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 17:39 BST, 20 October 2010

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Multi-millionaire 商売／仕事 guru Lord Sugar has 明らかにする／漏らすd that he is 存在 given £200 a year of taxpayers' money to help him 支払う／賃金 his heating 法案s.

Giving 支援する: 見習い工 星／主役にする Lord Sugar tried to return his handout

On the day the country was left reeling に引き続いて George Osborne's 戦略の spending review, Lord Sugar 明らかにする／漏らすd that he had been 軍隊d to 受託する winter 燃料 支払い（額）s since he turned 60 - にもかかわらず trying to send the money 支援する.

Lord Sugar, 63, 激怒（する）d about the 支払い（額） to 信奉者s on Twitter yesterday, ahead of the 告示 of 政府 削減（する）s.

The 見習い工 星／主役にする, thought to be 価値（がある） a staggering £730 million, （人命などを）奪う，主張するd to have spent more than an hour arguing with 政府 労働者s, telling them he didn't need the money - but civil servants 主張するd he keep it.

He said: 'I tried to get the winter 燃料 allowance sent 支援する when I first got it. After an hour on the phone to some civil servant in Newcastle gave up.'

He later 追加するd: 'The £200 燃料 allowance has to go into my bank account, but don't worry it ends up at good 原因（となる）s with a 負担 more. 信用 me, I don't keep it.'

In a その上の tweet, the 実業家 joked: 'I don't have a 解放する／自由な bus pass yet but that will be funny. Last time I was on a bus was 43 years ago.'

British 国民s are 適格の for help with the winter 燃料 支払い（額） once they reach 60 - although the 限界 is 始める，決める to rise to 65 over the next five years.

Emma Boon, 選挙事務長 for the Taxpayers' 同盟, said: 'This just goes to show that our 福利事業 system 猛烈に needs an 精密検査する. Multi-millionaires like Lord Sugar do not need 全世界の／万国共通の 利益s like the winter 燃料 支払い（額） but under the 現在の 支配するs receive them anyway.

'It's very noble that he tried to return it, 特に as the 政府 needs every penny and 続けざまに猛撃する in these 騒然とした times.

'We need to 捨てる 全世界の／万国共通の 利益s like the winter 燃料 支払い（額）, because it doesn't make sense to take people's money in 税金, then give it 支援する in 利益s, 特に if they don't want it.'

A spokeswoman for the Department of Work and 年金s 確認するd that the winter 燃料 allowance is paid automatically to 95 per cent of OAPs.

She said that Lord Sugar should have been advised that he could 取り消す the 支払い（額）, but would need to make the request in 令状ing rather than over the phone.

Lord Sugar, 階級d 59th in the Sunday Times rich 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）, was 任命するd to the House of Lords by the 労働 政府 in 2009.