Osborne must 'man up' on tax and spending cuts

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 5th March 2013 08:58.

*George Osborne must “man up” and cut spending on welfare, pensioners and the NHS or Britain will become an economic “basket case”, senior Tory......

Tens of thousands of pensioners fall victims of healthcare homes con

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 24th February 2013 09:55.

Tens of thousands of pensioners and people approaching retirement have been sold worthless ‘trust’ schemes that promised to protect...

£75,000 cap on cost of care will lose thousands of pensioners their homes

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 9th February 2013 10:42.

A chief architect of plans to limit the cost of long-term care has criticised ministers for setting the cap so high that thousands...

One in five are in the red on the day they retire, with debts averaging £31,000. Many still owe hundreds of thousands of pounds on interest-only mortgages, caught between endowments that failed to deliver and lenders demanding repayment.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfi...

Downing Street refuses to rule out scrapping winter fuel payments

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 3rd February 2013 10:47.

*......free bus passes and prescriptions for wealthiest pensioners after 2015 election* Winter fuel payments, free bus passes, eye tests,......

3m pensioners could reclaim £1,200 in tax on savings

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 31st January 2013 10:48.

*Three million pensioners are being urged to reclaim tax on their savings – worth up to £1,200 – after an influential Government department......

'Target winter fuel benefit to pay for elderly care'

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 3rd January 2013 09:36.

Winter fuel payments should be means-tested to help pay for care of the elderly, a former minister says. A report ...

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Savers and pensioners hardest hit by 'disastrous' inflation increase

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 13th November 2012 18:50.

Effect on low-income households expected to be severe, as experts warn that figure could rise to 3% in coming months. The 0.5 percentage...

A friend of mine went to her local curves gym yesterday and it was a pretty hard sell, she had to basically sign up there and then it was a lot of pressure (we know how gyms can be)


However, Today she has seen that this wasn't a wise choice very high membership for very shotty...

Well-off elderly could lose benefits including winter fuel allowance in care shake-up

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 20th June 2012 16:08.

pensioners could lose their winter fuel payments and free TV licences to help raise money for long-term elderly care, a...

No more winter fuel payments for you! Government told to cut benefits for middle

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 9th June 2012 08:04.

*.....-class pensioners who don't need them* The Government has been under pressure from senior politicians, including Work...

Thousands of pension incomes slashed in half as eurozone crisis could see £2,000 a month drawdown..

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 31st May 2012 20:51.

.......*payments cut to £900 *Thousands of pensioners must brace for their incomes to be slashed by half...

End of the Giro cheque: Now elderly told to collect pension from local shops

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 28th April 2012 11:18.

Tens of thousands of elderly people who receive their state pension by cheque will soon be forced to collect it from a local shop...

Treasury considers taxing state pensions at source in 'mark two granny tax'

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 9th April 2012 17:07.

More misery lies ahead for older people under plans to tax the basic state pension at source in a proposal that has been labelled...

1.5m hard-working pensioners penalised by new £140 state pension

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 22nd March 2012 19:15.

*Those who have worked their whole lives and paid in a full National Insurance contribution would have got a bigger pension under existing...