Sentences with phrase «aged pensioners working»

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The former director general of Saga, who only held the ministerial brief for 14 months and was known to have had a rocky relationship with former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, said the triple lock had «fulfilled its purpose» and pensioner households were now «no more likely to be poor than other age groups».

A Lib Dem source said: «We have consistently blocked Conservative attempts to freeze benefits for the working - age poor just as they have blocked our attempt to cut benefits for the wealthiest pensioners.

Baroness Altmann, Tory former pensions minister, warned that «only about one in 10 pensioners continues working past state pension age and are not all well - off.

At a keynote speech at Age UK's conference two weeks ago, work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith outlined his key principles for pension reform, with a focus on the next generation of pensioners and making it pay for current workers to save for retirement.

«You are aware that I believe the cuts would have been even fairer to younger families and people of working age if we had been willing to reduce some of the benefits given to better - off pensioners but I have attempted to work within the constraints that you and the Chancellor set.

The rest of it is made up of debt interest payments, tax credits, benefits for working - age claimants and pensioner welfare.

«The Liberal Democrats have consistently blocked Conservative attempts to freeze benefits for the working age poor, just as they have blocked our attempts to cut benefits for the wealthiest pensioners.

The chancellor brazenly repeated the phrase «we're all in this together» as he unveiled plans to freeze working age benefits for two years but continue to protect high earners and pensioners.

With financial help from the state concentrated on pensioners and the young, one in seven working - age adults without dependent children are now living in poverty — the highest ever level.

Iain Duncan Smith's Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), which clashed with No 10 repeatedly over the introduction of the universal credit, is once again at war with Downing Street over the future of benefits for old - age pensioners.

I worked with old - age pensioners.