It’s time to align the state pension with the minimum wage
2.1 million pensioners currently live in poverty
2.1 million pensioners currently live in poverty
Workers will be consigned “to the misery of being too old to work but too young for a pension”
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‘The fundemental issue is government failure to properly fund transport for London’
‘It is only the visible hand of government policies that is condemning people to poverty and hardship.’
‘At a time of fragile economic recovery the government is squeezing household budgets, workers and pensioners. There is no sign of levelling-up.’
‘The Resolution Foundation put it succinctly, ‘On taxes, by 2027 average households will be paying £3,000 more in taxes than when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister.’
‘Even before the proposed suspension of the triple-lock, 2.1 million retirees (18%), including 1.25 million women, live in poverty compared to 1.6 million (13%) in 2012-13.’
‘The government’s mantra is that it is rebuilding the post-Covid economy by ‘levelling-up’, but it is hard to discern any policy that is reducing inequalities’.
Scrapping plans give miners £1.2 billion in pensions has been called “cruel” and a “kick in the teeth” to retired miners and their families.