Campaigns
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Campaigners call for affordable energy for pensioners
- Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Pensioners Forum Wales launches fuel poverty manifesto
WALES’s older people should have access to affordable energy because they have low incomes and health problems – that’s according to campaigners.
Pensioners Forum Wales says the move will help reduce the numbers of older people who die because of the cold every winter.
Grandparents save the state up to £56,000 a year
- Monday, 15 April 2013
Grandparents, relatives and friends who care for children save the state up to £56,000 a year per child, a groundbreaking study reveals today.
Children whose parents are unable to care for them are mainly looked after informally by relatives and friends - not welfare agencies.
Researchers claim the kind-hearted carers - who have no automatic entitlement to support - have formed a "hidden population" until now.
New ONS data shows that one in five of the over 50s volunteer
- Thursday, 11 April 2013
David McCullough, WRVS chief executive, said: “The new ONS statistics paint a stark picture of growing old in Britain today, with almost half of those over the age of 80 feeling lonely.
"These feelings of loneliness are exacerbated by poor health and living alone, both of which we know increase as the nation ages. Those that feel lonely do fewer day to day activities creating a vicious circle of isolation with older people feeling trapped in their own homes.
Pensioners have felt the effects of the continued cold snap
- Thursday, 11 April 2013
Vince Smith Hughes, Prudential said: "Pensioners have felt the effects of the continued cold snap far more than most people for two reasons.
"Firstly they spend a higher proportion of their income on fuel, and secondly the £25 Cold Weather Payment benefit for vulnerable pensioners only runs from the beginning of November to the end of March.
Confusion and uncertainty over pensions leave many in a muddle
- Thursday, 11 April 2013
A shift in working cultures and confusion around retirement planning is resulting in a pension ‘black hole’, with almost a quarter (23 per cent) of UK adults stating they have lost track of at least one pension scheme – according to a new online poll for Age UK.
The poll, commissioned to understand more about people’s attitudes and plans for retirement, reveals that nearly a third (30 per cent) of UK adults would try to trace a pension if they realised they had lost track of it. However, people are unsure about how and where to start hunting these pensions down.
71% of the negative reviews directed towards homecare agencies and care homes
- Saturday, 06 April 2013
Statistics based on over 2,000 reviews posted on the consumer feedback website Good Care Guide have found that we are a nation fixated on quality of care for our children but lacking a similar concern for the elderly.
Reviewers on Good Care Guide perceived eldercare as particularly in need of improvement with 71% of the negative reviews on the site directed towards homecare agencies and care homes.
4.5 Million Pensioners Losing Out In New Tax Year
- Friday, 05 April 2013
Vince Smith Hughes, retirement expert at Prudential, said: "These personal allowance changes will not mean anyone losing out in cash terms but because the allowances for over 65s aren't being raised in line with inflation, there'll be almost 4.5 million people in this age group who will be £83 per year worse off in real terms. Around 360,000 of these people aged 65 will be losing an average £285 per year after inflation.
Occupational Pensioners Group Responds to Work and Pensions Select Committee Report on Draft Pension Bill
- Friday, 05 April 2013
The National Federation of Occupational Pensioners’ (NFOP) has today called for further clarity on Government plans to change the state pension, following a report from an influential group of MPs.
The Work and Pensions Select Committee today published their report into the Government’s Draft Pension Bill, welcoming the improvements in retirement income that the new Single-tier State Pension will bring. The Committee did warn, however, that the key to the policy’s successful implementation lies in the Government informing the public as soon as possible about how it will affect individuals.
Commenting on the report, CEO of NFOP Malcolm Booth said:
Would you like to do something special with your spare time? Drop in to Marlborough Library
- Thursday, 04 April 2013
Volunteer Centre Wiltshire will be holding a drop in session at Marlborough Library on April 15h 2013 2pm – 4pm. If you’ve got a bit of spare time you like to put to good use but don’t know where to start then drop in and see us to find out about all the volunteering opportunities in the area.
Volunteer Centre Wiltshire currently have over 1,000 volunteering opportunities waiting to be filled across Wiltshire, there are lots of things to get involved with: for example you could help with the construction of an amphitheatre, be a Fair Weather Escort for a local care home, get involved with maintaining canal boats, use your IT skills to help others get online or even help look after retired race horses.
More Articles...
- Public satisfaction with the NHS stabilising
- New state pension plan still unfair
- Have you been hit by the 'bedroom tax'?
- Excess winter deaths, Winter Fuel Payments and the UK's problem with the cold
- NACC welcomes appointment of a new Chief Inspector of Social Care
- Appointment of a Chief Inspector of Hospitals
- Care self funders need access to financial advice
- What will the Dilnot recommendations mean for you?
- Cuts to transport services devastating for older people
