ITYWF the qualifying age has been the same as the [female] state pension age since winter 2010-11 (but the policy was announced in 1999 when the decision to align sate pension ages was announced and the legislation changed in 2009).
And the amount is up to £300 (for an over-80 household).
bloody ell
2000 pounds per year just for heating
Well it's published every year.
That's the equivalent of £4 per week and hasn't been increased since its introduction
A bit stupid
These are the avoidable deaths.
No age group has an exclusive claim to poverty.
In article snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk>, "Dave Plowman (News)" snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk> writes
Poor people are often not allowed to have Dds so again don't get the cheapest deals.
Under the "simplified" new flat rate state pension which is neither simple nor flat rate there are transitional arrangements so that no one is worse of than they would have been under the old state pension system. The majority of pensioners are under the old system which included SERPS and for some Graduated income which are related to earnings.
Perhaps to avoid confusion with pensions paid by the state to its employees.
Women get credits for time raising children.
Private Eye is published more frequently than that. I don't believe everything I could read in that, either.
No doubt there are some, but I doubt that a large proportion of excess winter deaths are due to hypothermia.
It would suit some people if they were, of course.
You don't get colds from being poor.
Possibly. But ISTR that we usually hear that as "public sector pensions", often with the phrase "gold-plated" attached somewhere.*
[* Every time I type the word "attached" for the first time in a post, Thunderbird becomes anxious that I may have forgotten to attach an attachment.]
Gordon Brown you mean? Only 25 years.
Andy
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