Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 2 February 2009.
Hugo Swire
Chair, Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art
2:30,
2 February 2009
One of the gravest charges against this Government after a decade is that 60 per cent. of pensioners in deepest poverty are still not receiving income support, minimum income guarantee or pension credit entitlement. Given the Government's sustained attack on savers and the fact that there are now a number of proud pensioners in this country who have never claimed anything from the state and who shy from doing so, which leads to disguised poverty among pensioners, when will the Government wake up and present to those people that they, too, are entitled to some kind of support?
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june winstanley
Posted on 3 Feb 2009 8:26 pm (Report this annotation)
How right Hugo Swire is, if you are a pensioner who trys to save and lives just above the poverty line you are penalised we can not claim any benefits at all not even the cold weather payment, but pensioners just below the poverty line can claim all benefits and some times are better off than us.