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Government cannot take credit for fall in winter deaths among pensioners

Britain’s biggest pensioner organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) has called on ministers to acknowledge that today’s fall in the excess winter death figures among the elderly were du ...

admin 1630 views 0 likes Nov 28, 2014

Campaigners mark Older People’s Day by warning “Hands off our benefits”

Britain’s biggest pensioner organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) will be marking the UN Older People’s Day on 1st October with a call to maintain universal pensioner benefits, such a ...

admin 2881 views 0 likes Sep 29, 2014

Scrapping Winter Fuel Payments for wealthier pensioners looking likely

In his speech to the Labour Party conference this morning the Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls said the under a Labour Government Winter Fuel Payments (WFP) would not be paid to the top 5pc of the pensioner ...

admin 2705 views 0 likes Sep 22, 2014

Think again about digital investment

I write regarding the article on loneliness published in the June edition of your newspaper. Whilst I agree with the views on the problem of loneliness, this will not be solved with a ‘quick fix’ of ...

admin 1040 views 0 likes Aug 11, 2014