Sentences with phrase «of pensioner poverty»

That's a very misleading account of Labour's record with pensioners: we have a much lower level of pensioner poverty, and for the first time in British history, pensioners are less likely to be in poverty than other adults.

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«Look what happens when you get it right: the 11 years of Labour government between 1997 and 2008... A completely unbroken period of economic growth; we made the economy work like never before or since, and we lifted half a million children out of poverty; and lifted a million pensioners out of poverty.

The government's determination to roll out pension credits has been at the expense of other measures that could better tackle pensioner poverty, a new report warns.

«Ministers must bring forward proposals in the forthcoming white paper which put an end to a system that is leaving thousands of pensioners in unnecessary poverty.»

«These figures show in the starkest possible terms that Gordon Brown's flagship policy on pensioner poverty is failing to help many of the most vulnerable older people,» said spokeswoman Anna Pearson.

It is the design of the so - called Bismarckian pension system that makes widespread pensioner poverty an imminent threat.

«This report confirms that this government has become obsessed with meeting centrally set targets at the expense of delivering the benefits and services which will do most to lift pensioners out of poverty,» said shadow work and pension secretary Philip Hammond.

«Similar progress with other benefits should be the next step in pursuit of further progress towards what must be the overall goal: reducing pensioner poverty.»

Seven out of ten pensioners entitled to help with their housing costs but who are not claiming it are living in poverty, the spending watchdog warns.

Since Labour came to power we have seen a reduction in the number of children and pensioners living in poverty.

One in ten UK households are living in fuel poverty, one in five of which are pensioners; and at least # 1 for every # 4 spent on heating UK homes is wasted due to poor insulation.

Nearly 30 % of our pensioners were forced to live in poverty.

The state chapter of the PDP added that, under Fayemi, pensioners and civil servants are subjected to poverty and penury since the government will not pay them salary arrears, with deductions to their co-operative societies being owed up to five months.

Research from the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) suggests that pensioners living in poverty could be helped off the breadline if they downsize their home or take out a form of equity release scheme.

«2.5 million more jobs, economy is stronger, hundreds of thousands kids and pensioners lifted out of poverty, massively improved school results,» he said as an example.

«It will continue to protect the poorest pensioners from poverty and ensure that all pensioners share in the growing wealth of society.

But most telling of all, was Sir John's passionate plea for his party not to forget the «silent citizens» and the «lace curtain poverty» of Britain's pensioners.

We've already lifted 900 thousand pensioners out of poverty — and in the next five years will restore the earnings link for the basic state pension.

In a further blow, the government failed to make a dent in the number of children or pensioners living in poverty after big increases the previous year.

«Given that the term «fuel poverty» does not seem to have been used once in yesterday's Budget statement, can the Secretary of State confirm that Warm Front will be sufficient to address Age Concern's assessment of the Budget that its failure to tackle fuel poverty will continue to leave more pensioners out in the cold?

But, while poverty among children and pensioners has been reduced, it has risen among adults without children, especially those on out - of - work benefits.

And when you think of all we as a country invested over that period — in restoring the NHS, rebuilding schools, taking hundreds of thousands of pensioners out of poverty, ditto children — keeping the National Debt below the level they inherited from the Conservatives was a fantastic achievement.

Claire Perry uses her maiden speech to highlight rural poverty as George Hollingbery and Hariett Baldwin raise the plight of pensioners in poverty

First, the lawyers of PIAC represent organizations whose membership serves our target constituencies before boards and tribunals where the industries delivering such services are regulated, These organizations include the Canada Without Poverty (formerly NAPO), the Vulnerable Energy Consumers Coalition, the Consumers Association of Canada, the Ontario Council of Senior Citizens Organizations, National Pensioners and Senior Citizens Federation, Option consommateurs, Union de Consommateurs, and Rural Dignity of Canada among others.