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Save the Winter Fuel Payment petition!

We believe as many as 2 million pensioners who find paying their energy bills a real stretch will be seriously hit by this cut:

- Those on low incomes who just miss out on #Pension Credit

- Those with high energy needs because of #disability or #illness

- 1 million who don’t receive #PensionCredit for which they are eligible.

campaigns.ageuk.org.uk/page/15

campaigns.ageuk.org.ukSave the Winter Fuel Payment for struggling pensioners Sign Age UK's petition. Cutting the Winter Fuel Payment this winter, with virtually no notice and no compensatory measures to protect poor and vulnerable pensioners, is the wrong policy decision.

Another disgraceful #Sunak election bribe. So called Triple Lock Plus is a Tory U turn says #IFS. #Osborne got rid of #pensioner's tax allowance, now these devious Tories try to pull a fast one by reversing their own policy. UK electors won't be fooled rb.gy/108k59 Remember these deceitful Tories have imposed huge tax increases by freezing tax threshholds, again they tried to fool the British people. #ToryBribes #ToryCorruption #rejoinEU

The Independent · Triple lock plus is U-turn on Tory tax policy, think tank saysBy Alexander Butler

Intergenerational #inequality has always been evident (as one would expect; people accrue assets as they get older), but its getting worse.... for the rich this can be reduced by transfers & inheritance, but for the rest #pensioner poverty beckons....

This is just one more example of how the UK is a society run by the rich, for the rich, with scant regard of the social costs or misery such #class driven politics produces.

#classwar

theguardian.com/society/2023/s

The GuardianPensioner poverty: fear of rise over decades as UK under-40s wealth fallsBy Hilary Osborne