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ALMOST a quarter of over-65s are suffering money problems as “pensioner poverty” continues to spread, a charity revealed yesterday.
A report from Age UK warned that nearly three million of Britain’s pensioners are struggling to manage, leading Labour to charge that living in poverty is now an everyday reality for older people.
The charity said that older people were failing to claim around £3.5 billion in benefits, including council tax support, each year.
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP