Campaigns Decision on frozen pensions is “shameful and morally unjust”
16/03/2010
Britain’s biggest pensioner organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC), has described today’s decision by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights not to force the UK government to pay an annual increase in the state pension to all UK pensioners regardless of their country of residence as “shameful and morally unjust”.
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