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pensioners could lose their winter fuel payments and free TV licences to help raise money for long-term elderly care, a government adviser said yesterday. Lord Warner, who sat on last year’s inquiry into the funding of social care, added that ministers should consider a new ‘granny tax’ that would involve scrapping older people’s exemption from paying National Insurance. The former Labour minister also suggested deducting money from people’s estates after death to pay for the long-term care they received in old age....Read more HERE
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Further cuts to welfare will be announced by David Cameron today, with the universal benefits enjoyed by all pensioners protected while jobless families and the young bear the brunt of cost-cutting. The Prime Minister risks a Coalition row by dismissing calls for better-off pensioners to be stripped of free bus passes, television licences and the winter fuel allowance, instead targeting cuts at families with several children who do not work, and under-25s on housing benefit.Both Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg have made clear they favour a raid on such benefits for senior citizens....Read more here: Benefits-cuts-wealthy-pensioners-bus-passes-TV-licence-winter-fuel-payment
Pensioner benefits such as free bus passes and the winter fuel allowance could be means-tested after the next election, David Cameron hinted for the first time yesterday. During the 2010 election campaign, Mr Cameron pledged to retain these benefits for all pensioners regardless of income, dismissing Labour claims that they would be cut as ‘lies, lies, lies’. But asked yesterday if the payments, which also include free prescriptions and eye tests, could be means-tested if he wins a second term, he replied: ‘At the next election we will have to set out all our plans and be very clear about what they are. Between now and then I want us to have this debate and ask these difficult questions.’....Read more here: OAPs could face means tests on benefits after all