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Complicated two-tier pension system could leave existing pensioners with an inadequate state pension and a complicated means-tested system

(20/04/2011)

Around 61% of pensioner couples have an annual income of £15,000 or less, and 45% of all single pensioners have an annual income of £10,000 or less. 2.5m pensioners are living below the official poverty line in 2007/8 defined as 60% median population income (equivalent to £178 a week before housing costs in 2011). Two thirds of these pensioners are women. At least 15% of pensioners - over 1.5m older people - are living in persistent poverty ... [more]

Pensioners worst affected by the rising cost of living and the increase in VAT

(30/03/2011)

The Institute for Fiscal Studies/BBC latest report indicates that pensioners are among the worst affected by the government's austerity measures. The National Pensioners Convention (NPC) believes the report helps to contradict recent claims by the Institute for Economic Affairs that pensioners had escaped the effects of the cuts to public spending and welfare. The NPC's own research shows that: * Pensioners are up to £710 a year worse off th... [more]

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