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Vanishing Pensions
Means test on care for old 'to end' - 06/04/00
Labour 'sold pensioners down river' - 06/04/00
Mandelson denial on writing off pensioners - 17/04/00
Code to boost jobs for over-60s - 27/04/00
Summary of Generation Game - 27/04/00
Blair changes tack to pull in the grey vote - 27/04/00
Early retirement age to be raised - 27/04/00
Mental decay 'makes old people racist' - 29/04/00
BBC accused of 'fleecing elderly' over licences - 01/05/00
No escape from pension trap for now, warns Brown - 09/05/00
Pensions court victory for part-timers - 16/05/00
Ageism is rife in the NHS, say family doctors - 17/05/00
Silver surfers boom - 20/05/00
War widows scent pension victory on remarriage - 23/05/00
Dunkirk ships sunk by the Dome - 24/05/00 one Jane Stancliffe, of the Heritage Lottery Fund, questioned the "heritage merit" of the project.
Tories 'will increase pensions by £5.50' - 24/05/00
Brown urged to act over Tory pension pledge - 25/05/00
Hague offers 'grey voters' £60m deal - 29/05/00
Pensioners fail to claim Brown's top-up grant - 30/05/00
Pensioners live longer but face worse health - 07/06/00
Computer failure 'cost pensioners £40 million' - 12/06/00
Blair plans concessions to head off party revolt - 30/06/00 Prime Minister ready to make offer to party trade unions and Labour activists over pensions and mininum wage
Call for big pension rises - 02/08/00
Crackdown on pensions for sick staff - 11/07/00 Curbs on number of public sector workers retiring early ordered by the Government
Free nursing for elderly in care homes - 17/07/00
All nursing care for the elderly 'soon to be free' - 17/07/00 Government plans to pay long-term nursing costs for older people
Victim, 95, to lose benefit over award - 05/08/00 A 95-YEAR-OLD man who was beaten with his walking stick by a violent patient as he slept in a hospital bed has been told his benefits are to be cut because he was given compensation
MPs attack 'appalling pensions blunder' - 17/08/00
MPs attack 'appalling' blunder on pensions - 17/08/00 thousands of widows and widowers out of pocket and taxpayers facing a bill of up to £13bn
Cost of pensions error soars - 17/08/00
Blair rejects father-in-law's criticism - 03/09/00
Unions back pensions link - 08/09/00
Workers 'fail to save for retirement' - 10/09/00
Darling pledges tax rebate for pensioners - 12/09/00
More pensioners slip into poverty - 20/09/00 number has risen by almost 100,000 since last election
Brown to fight back with pensions boost - 21/09/00
Pensioner power: The new old protesters? - 21/09/00 this is the group that Peter Mandelson advised the Labour Party not to bother with in the build-up to the 1992 election
Labour split over pensions - 22/09/00
Brown targets cash at pensioners - 25/09/00
Pensioners on the warpath - 25/09/00
Brown leaves question over pensions - 25/09/00
What is pension credit? - 25/09/00
Blair acknowledges pensions criticism - 26/09/00
Union 'backs Brown on pensions' - 26/09/00
Labour faces pensions showdown - 27/09/00
Labour defeated over pensions - 27/09/00
Ministers reject care funding - 28/09/00
Inflation rise set to boost pensions - 10/10/00
Brown warned over pension rise - 10/10/00
EU's pension rule change 'to lift City' - 16/10/00
Pensions set for inflation-busting rise - 05/11/00
Pensioners turn up heat on Brown - 07/11/00
Brown's gifts fail to placate protesters - 09/11/00
Pensions warning to small firms - 16/11/00
Pensions factsheet - 17/11/00 to help you to choose, understand and complain about your pension
Pensioners 'cheated' out of millions - 18/11/00 by NIRS2 computer system
Pensions deal 'blunder' condemned - 23/11/00
Labour caves in over OAP care - 25/01/01
Call for free elderly care - 26/01/01
Father-in-law attacks Blair over pensioners' poverty - 03/02/01
Hague to scrap tax on pensioners' savings - 04/02/01
Tories promise tax-free deal to 1m pensioners - 13/02/01
Patients to be treated by need, not their age - 28/03/01
The old aren't fooled by this NHS numbers game - 28/03/01
Half of elderly fear attack at night - 25/04/01
Tories 'will protect assets of elderly' - 04/05/01
Darling accused of scaring pensioners over Tory plans - 11/05/01 Labour tried this scare in 1997. The public won't fall for it a second time, particularly from a Government which insulted pensioners with a measly 75p-a-week increase
Bullied veteran hangs in 'shame' - 16/05/01 A Second World War veteran who pointed a toy gun at a gang of teenage bullies after months of torment has been found hanged at home on the day he was to appear in court on imitation firearms charges... Hampshire police have no intention of questioning any gang members, or of pressing charges
Labour woos grey vote - 19/05/01 Hague accusing Labour of "cheek" following the 75p-a-week rise in the basic pension
Labour accused of 'gimmickry' over low fares for pensioners - 20/05/01 as the party unveiled a 10-point "charter for pensioners"
Tories promise to raise all pensions - 22/05/01
Elderly care is sabotaged - 17/06/01 with the loss of nearly 40,000 beds
Elderly kept in hospital by lack of care homes - 01/08/01
Beds crisis this winter as homes for elderly shut - 13/08/01
The elderly care crisis - 01/09/01
A hundred elderly-care homes are closing down each month - 02/09/01
Pensioners 'missing out in Brown's re-branding' - 28/09/01
£1.4bn care plans for aged 'unfair' - 01/10/01
Minister for pensions is barracked - 02/10/01 Ian McCartney denied being a weasel: "I come from the trade union movement"
New pensions shunned by workers - 08/10/01
NHS and pension spree to cost 5p on tax - 29/11/01
State leaves charities to pay its bills for elderly - 07/01/02 Charities are subsidising supposedly state-funded places for the elderly in care homes because the Government is refusing to pay their fees
Defeat for Blair in Tory ambush - 12/01/02 Their Bill would scrap the rule that forces holders of private pensions to take out a fixed-rate annuity after retirement
500,000 'denied operations through NHS bed-blocking' - 20/02/01 The equivalent of 6,000 years of hospital time - enough to treat half of all patients on NHS waiting lists - have been lost since May 1997
Elderly 'treated as second-class citizens' - 06/03/02
Pensions pledge is abandoned - 07/03/02 Downing Street has decided to abandon a promise to protect the pensions of employees who unwittingly change their employers when their company is sold
Unions concerned over breach of pensions promise - 08/03/02
MPs reap pension rewards while others suffer - 09/03/02
Tories and TUC to talk pensions - 11/03/02 company pensions have been hit by Labour's tax increases and other economic problems - 11/03/02
Tax penalties threaten to ruin care homes - 11/03/02 Government plans to prevent hospital "bed-blocking" will be scuppered by its own tax laws, with some care homes' council tax bills increasing by 4,500 per cent in a year
Free nursing care 'a shambles' - 12/03/02
Tories and TUC leader discuss pensions crisis - 14/03/02
102-year-old appeals against eviction - 18/03/02 50,000 care home places have been lost in the last five years due to lack of government funding for the crisis in the care home sector
Q&A: Care homes in turmoil - 18/03/02
We don't get our money's worth from Gordon Brown - 21/03/02 Mr Brown has Maxwelled £5 billion out of the nation's pension funds, thereby threatening millions with an impoverished old age
New care home rules 'the final straw' - 04/04/02
Canada backs legal case against UK - 08/04/02 It is backing a British-born pensioner who is taking the UK government to court over its refusal to uprate her pension each year
Surprise Commons defeat for Labour - 12/04/02 A Tory bill aims to provide flexibility for pensioners forced to take annuities by the time they are 75
Britons challenge 'unfair freeze on pension rises' - 16/04/02
Elderly betrayed - 28/04/02
MoD attacked by MPs over service pensions review - 09/05/02
Pensions face 'radical changes' - 10/05/02
Police pension crisis looms - 14/05/02
Britons abroad lose 'frozen pensions' case - 23/05/02
Government rejects care home warnings - 31/05/02 but thousands of pensioners' beds have been lost of the last few years and many more will disappear
Labour pensions policy questioned - 04/06/02
Pensions are 'slashed' by Labour raid - 27/06/02
Labour admits blunder over pensions savings - 02/07/02
Downing St accused of ignoring plight of Alice, 108 - 03/07/02 who starved herself to death after new government regulations forced the closure of the nursing home where she lived - her granddaughter wrote to Mr Blair in May about her grandmother's situation but did not receive a reply
Don't boost your pension at our cost, MPs warned - 06/07/02
Pensions maze holds no fears for Mr Ordinary - 06/07/02 Andrew Smith, the new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Eurozone is a pensions time bomb, says Howard - 08/07/02
First law of pensions: if you're poor, don't bother - 08/07/02 eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we're on state benefits
Chancellor pushes savings drive - 08/07/02 the Government has been overestimating the amount being saved a year by £35 billion
Care of the elderly is in crisis, say Tories - 11/07/02
Workers attack pensions 'sell-out' - 11/07/02
Plan to cut pension benefits is greeted coolly by Government - 12/07/02
Ageism is rampant, Britons tell charity - 16/07/02
MoD 'fobs off' claims for tax refund on pensions - 15/08/02
MoD admits new error on taxed war pensions - 16/08/02
More elderly 'to lose home for care fees' - 10/09/02
Elderly are ignored by Blair, says charity chief - 30/09/02
Census paints portrait of ageing Britain - 30/09/02 Britain has more people aged over 60 than under 16 for the first time
Pension rise 'totally inadequate' - 18/11/02
UK faces 'retirement roulette' - 20/11/02
Elderly caught in a trap - 28/11/02
How bad is the UK's pension crisis? - 06/12/02
Britain's 'un-retired' workforce - 09/12/02
Pensions explained: State pension - 10/12/02
Pension squeeze tightens - 11/12/02
Feeling 'let down' by the state - 12/12/02
Flexible retirement plan to ease pensions crisis - 16/12/02 people will be able to carry on working but draw their occupational pension at the same time
People 'suspicious over pensions' - 04/05/03
Tories issue pensions warning - 03/06/03
PM told 'save our care home' - 09/06/03 We are really hoping that Tony Blair will start listening to old people... No such luck
Eviction threat to woman, 102 - 16/06/03 "The government is not really concerned with elderly people"
Pensions of 450,000 who live abroad stay frozen - 18/06/03
Lord Rooker blamed for pension payments fiasco - 19/06/03 ministers knew about a pensions blunder that left more than 10 million people unaware of shortfalls in their state pension contributions
Post Office card could be costly for pensioners - 23/06/03
Burgled pensioners 'die early' - 25/06/03
Woman, 102, dies after 'eviction' - 08/07/03
Pension safety net 'would backfire' - 07/08/03
Council ends elderly couple's visits - 30/08/03
Elderly mental health 'timebomb' - 15/09/03
Fears over elderly mental health care - 23/09/03
Older workers lose rights battle - 02/10/03
Tories 'will help pensioners' - 05/10/03
Taxi ban wife dies in "care" home - 07/10/03
Stakeholder pensions 'missing target' - 07/10/03
Couples must save £180,000 for pension or nothing at all - 19/10/03
Thousands of old people 'drugged' - 05/11/03
Parents benefit but elderly left empty-handed - 11/12/03
Lords urge radical pensions plan - 10/01/04
Tories step up pension pledge - 20/01/04
Our pensions are affordable and will help people save - 20/01/04
Pensioners' manifesto launched - 10/02/04
Call for simpler pensions system - 10/03/04
Labour MPs urge pensions rethink - 06/04/04 the Tories and the Liberal Democrats are backing the call
Death warning over state pension - 15/06/04
Thousands march for pension rises - 19/06/04
'UK elderly need better services' - 08/07/04
Pension crisis: Will anyone fix it? - 04/01/05
Tories pledge pensioner tax cuts - 20/02/05
OAPs 'facing council tax poverty' - 21/03/05
Dead man not found for six years - 05/04/05 A 63-year-old man's body lay undiscovered in his council flat for nearly six years, an inquest was told
Apology over body left six years in flat - 06/04/05
The oracle at Delphi was more informative than Tony Blair - 27/04/05 Labour Mark III has no idea what it would do about the worsening pensions crisis
Restrict NHS aid 'on age grounds' - 05/05/05
Not very NICE to the elderly - 06/05/05
Angry OAPs boo pensions minister - 06/06/05
Older people 'denied social care' - 25/07/05
Blunkett ditches idea of citizen's pensions for all - 17/08/05
Age prejudice 'ubiquitous in UK' - 06/09/05
TUC chief attacks pensions plans - 14/09/05
Brown urges pensions age debate - 19/09/05
'Scandal' of OAP winter deaths - 24/10/05
Cold 'kills eight OAPs each hour' - 24/10/05
Rise seen in winter deaths toll - 27/10/05
50% of veterans 'live on £10,000' - 10/11/05
State pension makes up only half of income - 16/11/05
State pension age 'should rise' - 17/11/05
Working over time - 23/11/05
Brown 'rejects key pension plan' - 24/11/05
Pension reform still on, says PM - 26/11/05
Brown casts doubt on pension deal - 28/11/05
Work till you drop and pay more tax for the privilege - 01/12/05
The pensions mess, or paradise postponed - 01/12/05
I'll drink to a longer life, but I'm not sure how I'll pay for it - 01/12/05 Boris Johnson
Pensions 'will start at 75 for new graduates' - 01/12/05
Retirement age 'will rise to 85' - 18/02/06 well, not just yet
OAPs will outnumber children next year - 08/03/06
Pensions reprimand for government - 14/03/06
Brown robs pensioners blind, then offers free coach trips - 24/03/06
Health system 'neglects elderly' - 27/03/06
Pensions strike bites across UK - 28/03/06
In pictures: Council pension strike - 28/03/06
Taxpayer top-up for MPs' pension fund - 30/03/06
A pensions mess of Brown's own making - 05/04/06
State pension age to rise to 68 - 25/05/06
Boomers 'want to work after 65' - 30/05/06
Older people 'missing out' online - 04/07/06
Older staff 'dumped' as law looms - 10/09/06
Pensions plummet two thirds in 10 years - 20/09/06
'Millions unaware' of ageism laws - 25/09/06
Gordon's pension fallout - 21/10/06 the Chancellor has cost UK pension funds more than £100 billion
'Millions will die before promised pension increase' - 24/10/06
Angry pensioners besiege Westminster - 26/10/06 Tony Blair was accused yesterday of leaving millions of pensioners to "rot in poverty" by denying them a decent living before they died
Hutton says pension age must rise - 23/11/06
Revealed: the real rate of inflation - 04/12/06 four times the Labour Government's published rate of inflation!
Outrage over 9% inflation rate for pensioners - 05/12/06
Elderly 'must be virtually dying' to get care - 10/01/07
Brown 'led pensions scandal' - 24/01/07
Doctors 'deny elderly treatments' - 14/02/07
Brown's pension grab secret is revealed - 31/03/07
Cameron ups pressure on Brown over pensions - 01/04/07
Pensions mugger Brown has been rumbled - 03/04/07
Gordon Brown hit by new pension tax claims - 03/04/07
FOI disclosure: Abolition of Dividend Tax Credits in July 1997 Budget
CBI spoils Brown pension alibi - 05/04/07
Chancellor 'ruthlessly rejected' pensions advice - 07/04/07
Elderly people's lives 'worsen' - 13/06/07