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Pensioners Parliament 2009 - Reports & Photos

 

• Linskill Healthy Walks  What a good idea - do you have this in YOUR area?

• Final-salary pensions are now 'finished'
  Times Online - UK Pension experts last week said that final-salary schemes were “finished” after three big British firms moved to reduce members' benefits. ...

• NHS outsourcing... what can we do?
  from NHS Support Federation

• See New Web site by FSA
  http://www.moneymadeclear.fsa.gov.uk/campaigns/moneytalks.html

•  Cooper becomes Pensions Secretary
  Yvette Cooper becomes the ninth Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since Labour was elected in 1997.

• Life begins at 60 for the silver entrepreneurs
  guardian.co.uk - UK
  A recent report by older people's charity Age Concern revealed that more than one in seven employers operating mandatory retirement age policies plan to ...

• Unions have failed workers on pensions
  guardian.co.uk - UK
  If we look back at the pensions legacy of New Labour, it is a mound of sticking plasters applied to the bleeding corpse of final salary schemes.

• Time to prepare for an ageing nation
  guardian.co.uk - UK Walters has a personal empathy with older people and their importance to the younger generation: "Three of my grandparents died before I was....

• Final salary pension threat
  Financial Times - London,England,UK
  By Norma Cohen in London More than half of all employers surveyed at the start of this year were considering closing their final salary pension schemes to ...

• Alzheimer's Society condemns daylight robbery and drugging of
  Alzheimer's Society - London,UK Older people in Britain are being drugged and robbed when they need care, according to leading dementia charity, Alzheimer's Society. ...

 

My Garden

God gave me a garden so that I might rest
from the toils and turmoils of day
 and to learn that each flower is counted and blessed

while the sun sends the dew-tears away.

..Words of Wisdom

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