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12/03/2010

• News | The Independent UK - Fuel bills blamed for 50% rise in Winter Deaths...
  Dot Gibson, general secretary of the National Pensioners' Convention, said: "Since 1997, we have lost over 260000 pensioners during the winter because of cold-related illnesses, yet the Government seems incapable of acting. ... 

  As a result of takeovers and profiteering since privatisation in the 1980s, the number of household power suppliers has fallen from 20 to six. EDF Energy, E.ON, ScottishPower and Npower have been taken over by overseas corporations, making them more resistant to national pressure to lower bills.

  Confusing bills from the firms, which have a baffling array of 4,000 different tariffs, also make customers less likely to search for a better deal. The Government urged firms to lower prices this spring, but since then ministers have been quiet and the Department for Energy and Climate Change has issued no press releases on household bills all year. The Big Six, which control 99 per cent of the domestic market, are likely to face new pressure later this year as they reveal bumper earnings.
  
  Well done The |Independent for their Energy campaign.

  "Over-50s rush to take pensions early before rule-change deadline guardian.co.uk Over the next few months a boom is expected in the number of people taking their pensions early as they rush to beat a change in the minimum age. ...

  Financial Services Authority gives staff 10pc rise as pension ...Telegraph.co.uk
  Its expenditure included a £5.8m payment as part of plans to make good a £88.9m deficit in the pension fund. But the inflation-busting pay rises are ...

  How public pensions beat private pensions
  Visalia Times-Delta BY DAVID CASTELLON • August 15, 2009
  The kinds of pension benefits that public employees enjoy are practically unheard-of in ... This is an American story but we have the same situation?

  Don’t blame the ‘Bus Pass’ Britain’s biggest pensioner organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) notes with growing concern the increasing amount

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  Disgraced fatcat bankers to pocket record £4bn in bonuses despite bringing economy to its knees

  • Public sector pensions are unsustainable – and unfair  - a few articles for your perusal
   
• Care for the elderly -Nothing to write home about Economist July 2009
• They must stop making a mess of our pensions  Daily Mail
  Our pension system is in trouble. Only around half of the UK population is making adequate pension contributions and the number of pensioners is set to rise ...

• End of the dream for British expats in Spain

  guardian.co.uk - ‎Jul 23, 2009‎
  Now the drinkers are more likely to curse the pitiful pound, discuss who missed the last outing of the British pensioners' club, and swap stories of friends

• Our elderly worse off than Romania's: British pensioners among the ...

  Daily Mail - Steve Doughty - ‎

  In Britain nearly one in three over-65s, or 30 per cent, are on incomes below the poverty threshold. That is lower only than the 51 per cent in Cyprus, .

• 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. ...

• Economy to fall into deflation for first time since 1960 Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
  Neil Duncan-Jordan at the National Pensioners Convention, said: "It's pretty grim for pensioners. The price of food and utility bills is still increasing, ...

  Over 50s hardest hit by recession
  Moneywise Magazine - London,England,UK
  Around 80% of the UK's eight million pensioners rely on savings or share-based income during their retirement, according to the National Pensioners ...

  Expats granted right to pensions appeal |
  The consortium – which is made up of a total of five expat pensioner organisations in Canada, Australia and South Africa – has failed to overturn the policy in the British High Court, Appeal Court and House of Lords. ...

  Pensioners denied free long distance coach travel with bus passes

  Thousand of elderly people are to be denied free long distance coach trips allowing a tightening of the rules covering concessionary bus travel by the ...

• No more peak time bus travel for pensioners

  THOUSANDS of pensioners in Worcester and the Wyre Forest will no longer be able to use their free bus passes during peak times from today ...

• Extend scheme to rail

  The Scottish Government's "review" of the national concessionary travel scheme should include concessionary rail travel, which is still denied under the ...
• The Government has now "redefined" the National Free bus scheme, making clear that the concessionary scheme does not apply to long distance coaches, tourist buses or even park and ride schemes.

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  Age Concern Scotland and Help the Aged in Scotland Announce Merger -Chief Executive -David Manion - and new Chair of Trustees appointed......

• Dame Joan Bakewell: voice of the old
  Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
  ... been criticised by the National Pensioners' Convention, an organisation that represents 1000 regional and national groups concerned with the elderly. ...
• Ex-footballer in pension protest
  Scotsman - United Kingdom
  He presented a letter to Secretary of State for Scotland Jim Murphy yesterday alongside Scottish members of the National Pensioners Convention, ...
• Cut in funding for older people condemned
  Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
  The withdrawal of a support scheme for older people in the Budget has drawn condemnation today. In a statement yesterday, John Curran, Minister of State at ...
• Pensioners call for state pension rise
  MK News - Milton Keynes,UK
  BY LAURA HANNAM Pensioners held a protest in Bletchley to gather support for their campaign to raise the state pension. The National Pensioners Convention
• Poor oaps 'may die from cold'
  TeleText - Scotland,UK
  About 100 people attended a rally outside Belfast City Hall as part of a UK-wide day of action organised by the National Pensioners' Convention. ...

• Results tagged “cash for day trips” from Coventry Telegraph - CV5

  CV5 Communities - ‎Apr 6, 2009‎

  A DAY after millions of us sat glued to the Grand National, daredevil pensioners galloped gaily round Allesley Park in a wacky wheelchair race. ...

  Pensioner movement elects first woman leader the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) - has chosen its first female general secretary in its 30 year history

  • End of the road for free go-anywhere bus pass for the over-60s
    Times Online - UK ... to make pensioners pay. David Sinclair, the head of policy at Help the Aged, said: “We are extremely concerned that what was supposed to be a national ...Legislature aiming to crack down on pension provisions
    Boston Globe - United States Senate President Therese Murray announced that the Senate today planned to quickly approve seven proposals aimed at closing what critics call unfair pension ...
  • Wolverhampton pensioner leader condemns loss of ...
    By The Editor
    National Pensioners Convention Wolverhampton Chairman City of Wolverhampton and District United ex Service Council. President Royal Marines Association Wolverhampton President Royal British Legion Wolverhampton ....
  • Beware of this Government Ponzi scheme
    Birmingham Post - Birmingham,West Midlands,UK
    Today’s investors are paying out the benefits to investors who are cashing in (current pensioners). When the state pension scheme was devised ...
  • Pension queries over rule changes
    BBC News - UK
    By Jenny Culshaw A pensions helpline has been swamped with calls because of rule changes over the extra payments needed to secure a full state pension. ...

   

• Government to consider relaxing annuity rules
  guardian.co.uk - UK The government yesterday agreed to meet opposition MPs and pensioner lobby groups following concerns that recent stockmarket falls would wipe out much of ...
• Good Samaritan threatened with arrest after organising whip-round ...Daily Mail - UK By Jaya Narain A train guard threatened a passenger with arrest after he went to the aid of a sobbing pensioner who had boarded the wrong train
  Its all coming clear now - the railway companies don't want passengers!
• Inflation hitting pensioners harder!
• Why aren't we blaming the pension funds?
  guardian.co.uk, UK -The vast bulk of pension fund money is for the benefit of the over 50s. The final salary schemes are the worst First generation baby boomers and their ...
• Severe Value Erosion Seen in Pension Funds
  Money UK, UK - Oct 8, 2008
  By Peter Wakeford Retirement savings have been hit hard by the worsening credit crunch, according to a new report. The credit crunch has led to 20 percent ...
• Better deal for old folk in Monklands
  Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser - Airdrie,Lanarkshire,UK
  PENSIONERS across Monklands will enjoy a better quality of life thanks to a radical new approach to the care of older people. The council’s new ways of ...

• • Pensioner power Exercises classes keeping Flo fit at age of 100
  • Over 60s lose money from change
    BBC News - UK People who claim pension credit and money off their council tax or rent from 6 October will have the backdating cut from 12 months to three. ...
  • Pensioners are hardest hit by surging cost of bills
    Times Online - UK ... according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. The sharp increase in prices for hard-pressed pensioners was far higher than the Bank of ...
  • Pensioners rally for support Bridgwater Mercury - Bridgwater,England,UK ... from the gardens to the town hall via the high street for an information fair, exhibition and talk by Dot Gibson of the National Pensioners Convention. ...
  • National Pensioners Convention calls for increase in winter fuel
    Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom The National Pensioners Convention (NPC) has called on the Government to ensure its package of measures aimed at helping families meet ....
  • Veterans' mental care condemned 8 Sep 2008 ... Britain is facing a "timebomb" of mental health problems among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans
  • Financial abuse of elderly 'huge
    Thousands of elderly people are having their life-savings, possessions and homes stolen
  • Joan Bakewell launches attack on 'hideously young' TV industry
    This is London Dame Joan Bakewell has attacked ageism in television, saying that the industry is dominated by the 'hideously young'. The 75-year-old presenter claimed that ...
  • Pensioners hit hard times
    Sunday News - Zimbabwe The President of the National Railways Pensioners Association, Mr Esaph Mdlongwa, confirmed that their members were facing a number of challenges. ...
    This pensioner had a cheque for $12,08021703
    We do not know how lucky we are!
  • Millions missing out on pension benefits -Claim before 6th October!
  • Pensioners contacted about benefits
    The Press Association - The Government is to contact 250000 older people as part of a campaign to make sure they claim Pension Credit amid fears that more than a million over ...
  • Elderly people abused in hospitals and care homes
    Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 9 hours ago
    Elderly people are being "mistreated and abused" in hospitals and care homes, according to a new report. By Chris Irvine Age Concern criticises the lack of ..
  • Western Morning News - Plymouth,England,UK PENSIONERS' rights campaigners in the Westcountry have backed a call to replace road signs which they say give a "negative" image of elderly people. ...
  • Children outnumbered by over-60s
    BBC News - UK Help the Aged said an older population would require social care reform and the end of "arbitrary" retirement ages. ONS figures also revealed that the ...
  • Pensioner fined for upside down disabled badge
    Mansfield Chad - Mansfield,England,UK AN 81-YEAR-OLD pensioner says common sense has been turned on its head after he was fined for parking with his disabled badge upside down
    Shame on you Ashfield District Council
  • Pensioner benefits take-up call
    BBC News - UK A new scheme to improve the up-take of benefits among older people has been launched by Age Concern Scotland. More than £4.5bn worth of benefits is ...

    Card-playing pensioners landed with £250 health and safety bill Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour ago
    A group of pensioners have had to abandon their weekly game of cards after being charged £250 to cover the cost of health and safety. ...

    Rising prices are forcing pensioners into fuel poverty’
    The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK The National Pensioners Convention (NPC) said the rising cost of living - highlighted by the recent 35% increase in bills by British Gas, owned by energy

    Pensioners 'see higher cost rise'
    BBC News - UK The cost of living for pensioners has outstripped inflation over the past 10 years, a study suggests. Pensioners have seen the cost of the goods and ...

     
  • Browns Tax Grab on pensions robs us of £20,000 EACH.
  ...
   

  • Rising prices are forcing pensioners into fuel poverty’
    The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK The National Pensioners Convention (NPC) said the rising cost of living - highlighted by the recent 35% increase in bills by British Gas, owned by energy
  • Pensioners 'see higher cost rise'
    BBC News - UK The cost of living for pensioners has outstripped inflation over the past 10 years, a study suggests. Pensioners have seen the cost of the goods and ...
  • Plight of the OAPs who banked on a home sale windfall
    Daily Mail - UK Neil Duncan- Jordan, national officer from the National Pensioners' Convention, said: 'Pensioners are clearly the victims of the current crisis. ...
  • Pensioners launch new care campaign
    By Seniors Network(Seniors Network) Britain's biggest pensioner organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) has launched a new campaign entitled Care Free, to coincide with the government's six month's consultation on the future of care and support services. .
  • Woman stole thousands to pay for grandmother's Alzheimer drug, court told
    03/07/2008 04:26PM BST  |  By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent
    Woman stole thousands to pay for grandmother's Alzheimer drug, court told. Fiona Bartlett, 41, stole the cash from her employer so she could buy the drug Aricept, which can slow down the progress of the disease. Using false identities she authorised ...read
  • Anti-dementia drug 'delays need for care home'
    06/10/2003 00:01AM BST  |  By Celia Hall, Medical Editor
    Anti-dementia drug 'delays need for care home'. New research has shown that giving people with Alzheimer's disease an anti-dementia drug can stave off the move into a nursing home for 18 months. Prescribing the drug donepezil (Aricept) ...read
  • Tax cut for Glasgow veterans
    Scotsman - United KingdomPensioners in Glasgow who are former services personnel will pay less for local services in the move by the city council. Bob Winter, the lord provost, ...
  • Harman's equality plans welcomed
    guardian.co.uk - UK Pat Healy, vice president of the National Pensioners Convention, said: "Having equality on paper is a major step towards tackling age discrimination in ...
  • Age and sex discrimination tackled
    ITV.com - UK The Government will outline an Equalities Bill aimed at improving the rights of pensioners to access services and women in the workplace.
  • GREEN HOME = BETTER ALTERNATIVE THAN NURSING HOME
    By Lauren Ellerman Susan Feeney, a spokesperson for the American Health Care Association, which represents thousands of for-profit and not-for-profit nursing homes,
  • The end of the benefit girocheque
    BBC News - UK Dot Gibson, Vice President of the National Pensioners Convention and herself one of the 150000, is forthright. "Some people don't want a bank account. ...
  • Marks: I’ll ease fuel price blow for our elderly
    Daily Post - Llandudno Junction,UK Wales’s new Older People’s Commissioner said she will work closely with the region’s six local authorities to ensure OAPs claim every grant  ...
  • Group backs call for pension rise
    Keighley News - Keighley,UK By Keighley News reporter
    A dozen pensioners from Keighley attended the annual meeting of the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) earlier this month. ...
  • How to protect your savings from inflation
    Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
    Inflation can be particularly damaging for pensioners, who generally have fixed incomes. And pensioners have been hit especially hard by the price rises, ...
  • Food and fuel bills 'force workers to delay retirement'
    Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
    By Yvette Essen, Pensions Correspondent Rising food, gas, electricity and petrol bills are forcing pensioners to put off their retirement or consider going ...
  • Time to really help the aged
    Sunday People - UKEight Hundred pensioners per day join the ranks of the poor - that's a shocking headline which should shame all of us. And that's not 800 a year, ...
  • Rich Britons retiring abroad are 'cheating' UK taxpayer of millions
    guardian.co.uk - UK
    Under new pension rules, which took effect in April 2006, wealthy pensioners are able to transfer their retirement pot overseas and after five years they
  • Computer help at hand for pensioners
    Comet 24 - Welwyn Garden City,England,UKThis week Derrick Robson, a pensioner himself who worked in the computer industry for 40 years, volunteered to help other pensioners with their computer ...
  • Pensioner poverty rises due to council tax hikes and soaring cost ...
    This is London - London,England,UK
    A Labour minister has blamed council tax rises for an unexpected increase in the number of pensioners living in poverty. Pensions Minister Mike O'Brien ...
  • Brown blamed as pensioner poverty rises for first time in 10 years
    Gulf Times, Qatar - The prime minister suffered a fresh blow yesterday after figures showed pensioner poverty had risen for the first time in 10 years - and he was to ..
  • This week is Carers Week - a celebration of the contribution made by carers. Visit the Carers Week website to find out what's going on where you ......
  • Scottish Seniors Alliance Meet Minister Shona Robison MSP
    The ‘Scottish Seniors Alliance’ (SSA) a fresh new Seniors organisation deeply concerned about the urgent needs of Senior Citizens
    
  • Diabetes Week, taking place from 8 – 14 June 2008, Diabetes UK aims to raise awareness of the seriousness of diabetes by organising a variety of fundraising, awareness and campaigning activates across the country.
  • Computer help at hand for pensioners
    Comet 24 - Welwyn Garden City,England,UKThis week Derrick Robson, a pensioner himself who worked in the computer industry for 40 years, volunteered to help other pensioners with their computer ...
  • Pensioner poverty rises due to council tax hikes and soaring cost ...
    This is London - London,England,UK
    A Labour minister has blamed council tax rises for an unexpected increase in the number of pensioners living in poverty. Pensions Minister Mike O'Brien ...
  • Brown blamed as pensioner poverty rises for first time in 10 years
    Gulf Times, Qatar - The prime minister suffered a fresh blow yesterday after figures showed pensioner poverty had risen for the first time in 10 years - and he was to ..
  • This week is Carers Week - a celebration of the contribution made by carers. Visit the Carers Week website to find out what's going on where you ......
  • Pensioners lobby on poverty
    Warrington Guardian - England, UK
    A banner from the group was proudly attached to the front of the upper circle in the venue showing their support for the national Pensioners Convention that ...
  • Equality Bill must prohibit ageism
    Scotsman - United Kingdom AS T&G Retired Members Association Vice President and Chairman of the National Pensioners' Convention (NPC) Scotland, I reported at a recent Executive ...
  • Gas bills to soar by another 40pc
    guardian.co.uk - UK New highs in food and energy bills have been a particularly heavy burden for pensioners in recent months, with eight out of 10 admitting that they have ...
  • Scottish Seniors Alliance Meet Minister Shona Robison MSP
    The ‘Scottish Seniors Alliance’ (SSA) a fresh new Seniors organisation deeply concerned about the urgent needs of Senior Citizens

  Richard Elloway becomes first pensioner to travel free from Land's ...
  Times Online - UK
  A determined pensioner called Richard Elloway, 61, has become the first person to travel free from Land’s End to John o’ Groats on local buses – a record ...

• War Of The Wardens
  Glasgow Sunday Mail - UK A ROYAL Navy veteran is leading hundreds of pensioners in a battle to save the wardens in their sheltered housing complex. Duncan Marshall, 85, is taking ...
• Claim your cash, OAPs urged
  Norfolk Eastern Daily Press - Norwich,England,UK
  Last year the charity helped local older people to claim more than £1m. The campaign will focus on different benefits every two months starting with Council ...
• Pensioners stage 25p protest
  By Seniors Network(Seniors Network)
  Britain's biggest pensioner organisation is today calling on
  all older people aged 80 and over to send the 25p weekly age
  addition they receive, back to the Chancellor, in protest at the
  government's continued failure to substantially ...
• War Of The Wardens
  Glasgow Sunday Mail - UK
  A ROYAL Navy veteran is leading hundreds of pensioners in a battle to save the wardens in their sheltered housing complex. Duncan Marshall, 85, is taking ...
• How the cost of living soared overnight
  MSN Money UK - London,UK Joe Harris from the National Pensioners Convention said: "Council tax of £26.42 a week is around 30% of the £87.30 weekly basic state pension and this ...
• Pensioners are 'political pawns
  Rochdale Observer - UK This week, they were stunned when they were visited by two councillors, each promising to grant the pensioners a reprieve. ...
• Bevin Boy' Savile collects honour
  The Press Association - Awards of the lapel badge this month coincide with the 60th anniversary of the demobilisation of the last Bevin Boys. Sir Jimmy said afterwards: "During the ...
• Honouring the Bevin Boys ic Wales
• Bevin Boys: 'Most of us couldn't wait to get out' Telegraph.co.uk
• Bevin Boys get badge from Gordon Brown Daily Record
• Fakenham and Wells Times -
• BBC News
• O.A.Pleas for the elderly THE SUN has been asked to help more than a million pensioners who are missing out on £2.5BILLION in benefits.
• OAPs’ forum is 'under threat'
  York Press - York,UKA VITAL voice for older people in York could be silenced if the city council fails to provide more money. The Older People's Assembly has been running for ...
  Over-55s 'causing holiday havoc'
  BBC News - UK In addition, nearly two in three admitted not taking out travel insurance on their last trip overseas, and more than half of older holidaymakers drink more ...
• Pensioners call for halt to Post Office closure programme Britain's largest organisation of older people, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC), is calling on MPs to vote today to suspend the closure of 2500 local post offices.
• Fitness pensioner fights job axe
  The Sun - London,UK PLUCKY pensioner Celia Powis is fighting mad with her local council after they axed her as a fitness instructor – for being too OLD. ...
• 1.8 million of UK pensioners living in poverty
  Finance Markets, UK - by Kay Murchie Approximately 1.8 million of UK’s 11 million pensioners are living in poverty, the majority of them women. The UK’s basic state pension of
• Who'd be a pensioner in Britain today?
  This is Money, UK - Mar 5, 2008 Retirement is supposed to be about spending more time with friends and family, long holidays in the sun and enjoying a well-earned rest. But for mill ion
• Greedy energy firms told: Cut OAPs' bills or face a new tax
  Mirror.co.uk, UK - 2 hours ago By Jake Morris 3/03/2008 Energy firms who made whopping profits as gas and electricity bills soared have been ordered to hand back money to the poor. ...

• IFAonline.co.uk - Pension schemes in greatest volatility since ...The Aon200 Index, which tracks the surplus or deficit in the 200 largest UK privately-sponsored pension schemes, fell from a £2bn deficit at the end of ...

• A LARK IN THE PARK FOR PENSIONERS
  UK Express - UK As the country’s first pensioner park, it has six pieces of equipment to provide gentle exercise to hips, legs and torso. Housing association bosses paid ...
• Campaign marks 100 years of the state pension - new website
  Britain's biggest pensioner organisation - the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) - launch a new 12-month campaign to mark a century of the state pension
• Take your partners!
  ic Wales - United Kingdom One pensioner has even come out of retirement to tap into the trend. Cynthia Merrett, 76, had hung up her dancing shoes quite a few years back. ...(Ballroom dancing is back in fashion - will this kill Rock & Roll?)
• Pensioners meetings
  By mellorredfern(mellorredfern) Solihull Pensioners Convention will celebrate the Centenary with West Midlands Pensioners in Birmingham in March and at National Pensioners Parliament in June when SPC members will travel to Blackpool for 3 days, financed by Awards for ...
• Costa Brits cash in on winter fuel bonuses
  This is Money, UK - Jan 9, 2008 Fifty thousand elderly Britons living overseas are raking in millions of pounds in winter fuel payments. The road to riches is easy with This is Money. ...
• 5m 'gold' pensions in public sector The worrying trend has raised fears of a 'two-tier' pensions system, with taxpayers footing the bill for generous public sector terms.
• Moderate drinking OK for seniors
  Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia - Jan 2, 2008
  FOR those of mature years who have raised a few glasses over the festive period, here is a welcome tonic. It seems that regular moderate drinking is ... (Hic)
• One million pensioners eating less to pay heating bills
  Daily Mail - UK Most pensioners are also entitled to claim winter fuel payments. Those under 79 get between £100 and £200, depending on their circumstances, while those 80 ...
• Britons have worst state pension in EU Daily Mail - UK

• Pensioners meetings
  By mellorredfern(mellorredfern) Solihull Pensioners Convention will celebrate the Centenary with West Midlands Pensioners in Birmingham in March and at National Pensioners Parliament in June when SPC members will travel to Blackpool for 3 days, financed by Awards for ...
• Costa Brits cash in on winter fuel bonuses
  This is Money, UK - Jan 9, 2008 Fifty thousand elderly Britons living overseas are raking in millions of pounds in winter fuel payments. The road to riches is easy with This is Money. ...
• 5m 'gold' pensions in public sector The worrying trend has raised fears of a 'two-tier' pensions system, with taxpayers footing the bill for generous public sector terms.
• Moderate drinking OK for seniors
  Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia - Jan 2, 2008
  FOR those of mature years who have raised a few glasses over the festive period, here is a welcome tonic. It seems that regular moderate drinking is ... (Hic)
• One million pensioners eating less to pay heating bills
  Daily Mail - UK Most pensioners are also entitled to claim winter fuel payments. Those under 79 get between £100 and £200, depending on their circumstances, while those 80 ...
• Britons have worst state pension in EU Daily Mail - UK
• Fears raised over final salary pension scheme closures
  Guardian Unlimited - UK
  The number of workers with access to a final salary pension scheme looks set to fall in the next five years, research by the National Association of Pension ...
• 5m 'gold' pensions in public sector The worrying trend has raised fears of a 'two-tier' pensions system, with taxpayers footing the bill for generous public sector terms.
• Moderate drinking OK for seniors
  Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia - Jan 2, 2008
  FOR those of mature years who have raised a few glasses over the festive period, here is a welcome tonic. It seems that regular moderate drinking is ... (Hic)
• Steelworkers welcome pension deal
  BBC News - UK Former steel workers who lost most of their pensions when their employers went bust have welcomed the expected announcement of a compensation deal. ...
• Why the pensioners of 1950 were better off than today's
  Daily Mail, UK - They show the basic state pension is currently just 15.9 per cent of the average wage, compared to 18.4 per cent 57 years ago. In 1980, when Mrs Thatcher ...
• LABOUR’S SHAME AS THEY GIVE PENSIONERS OVER 80 A RISE OF JUST A PENNY
  UK Express, UK - By Alison Little Deputy Political Editor Pensioners are worse off compared with the rest of the country than they were in 1950, it emerged yesterday. ...
• Older People Up To £50000 Out Of Pocket, UK
  Medical News Today (press release) - UK
  These benefits currently sit in the Government's pot of £4.5 billion unclaimed benefits for older people, but 1 in 3 pensioners are not aware of who to turn ...
• Bridie wins Pensioner of the Year 2007
  Derry Journal -
  By Staff reporter Age Concern Derry hosted its annual Pensioner of the Year awards recently at a gala presentation evening in Malvern House, Chapel Road, ...
• One million pensioners eating less to pay heating bills
  Daily Mail - UK Most pensioners are also entitled to claim winter fuel payments. Those under 79 get between £100 and £200, depending on their circumstances, while those 80 ...
• Britons have worst state pension in EU Daily Mail - UK

• Top Stories Britain is flexi working
  Mirror.co.uk - London,UK
  The National Pensioners Convention said: "The Government has lost the trust of pensioners and there is not much in the Queen's Speech that will help to win