Press Release

Budget and Pensioners

October 30 2018

Pensioners were completely forgotten in Philip Hammond's budget.
While the richest were given tax cuts, our pensioners have to struggle on with the worst pensions in the developed world. Across the globe, from Ireland to Chile, independent countries support their pensioners. In the UK, pensions have shamefully fallen to less than a third of average wages.

While austerity was eased for businesses and the better off, there was very little for the old, the vulnerable and those in poverty.
The chancellor failed to address major issues with the care sector, promising only "difficult choices" in forthcoming Tory plans.
The difficult choice facing pensioners this Christmas is Heat or Eat.

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