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Pensioners will call tomorrow for a £60 rise in the weekly state pension as they launch a “grey manifesto” for the 2015 general election.
The manifesto for Britain’s 11 million pensioners will be launched at the annual National Pensioners Convention (NPC) pensioners’ parliament in Blackpool.
Boosting the state pension from £113 to £175 would see millions of older people lifted out of poverty, the NPC argues.
Protecting free bus passes and free prescriptions from means testing are other policies drawn up in consultation with thousands of NPC members.
NPC general secretary Dot Gibson urged her generation to vote for candidates in the general election that support the pledges.
“It will be important that we send a clear message to all the political parties this week — that we have campaigned over many years to secure benefits such as the free bus pass — and we will not give them away lightly,” she said.