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Pensioners group warns top up rules

Pensioners group warns top up rules

The National Pensioners Convention (NPC) has described yesterday’s announcement of plans to introduce a state pension top up for anyone who retires prior to April 2016 as “a bit of a gamble”. Under th ...

Pension increase with pension credit cuts

In your article in February’s Mature Times on the annual increase in the state pension, there was no mention of pension credit. Over the last four years, every time we have had a pension rise ou ...