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But Steve Webb has lasted the course — in fact he's the longest serving pensions minister since the job was invented — and I caught up with him to discuss how it's been for the man whose other badge of honour is that he was one of the founders of the Social Liberal Forum.
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Thanks to an Access to Information request filed by Blacklock's Reporter, an online newsmagazine, we've learned that the Harper government has been drafting legislation since last November to strip away pension security for federally - regulated workers, despite Finance Minister Joe Oliver's statement this past April that no changes would be made without the consent of the retirees.
As part of the ongoing talks over wider cuts to public sector pensions, ministers have since ruled out any negotiations on the issue.
Pensions minister Ros Altmann argued voters would be undermining their «democratically elected leaders» if they vote to quit the bloc, since pro-EU MPs enjoy a significant parliamentary majority.
Yet while ministers have been trying to reach their target of giving the pension credit to three million older people - a target they have missed - the take - up of housing and council tax benefits has fallen by five and ten per cent respectively since 1997.
With jobs and pensions standing out as the key areas of debate, Labour sent former deputy prime minister John Prescott, who has fashioned himself into a campaigning machine since leaving the Commons, to the constituency.
Since losing her seat by just 417 votes in the general election, the former work and pensions minister has clearly not been short of job offers.
She demanded ministers pay back the 85,000 people who have since lost much of their pensions as a result, but the government rejected this as far too expensive.
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