Sentences with phrase «pensioner benefits»

The Tories will continue to protect pensioner benefits including the free bus pass, TV licences and the winter fuel payment.

It was her admission that Labour will review their policy on pensioner benefits ahead of the next election.

«David Cameron's official spokesman warned yesterday that pensioner benefits such as the winter fuel allowance are facing cuts — undermining the Prime Minister's election pledge to preserve the handouts.

Osborne is right to point out that means - testing pensioner benefits would not raise the sums that many suggest.

Whether it's the minimum wage or a variety of pensioner benefits, the coalition has accepted a significant shift of the political pendulum.»

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It could become a major political controversy given the pledges on pensioner benefits Cameron made during the election campaign.

That is Cameron's first public hint that he is likely to repeat his 2010 pledge to ring - fence pensioner benefits.

Since the winter fuel allowance is the most expensive of the main pensioner benefits (costing # 2.2 bn last year) it seems equally likely that free bus passes (# 1bn) and free TV licences (# 600m) will similarly be protected.

We currently have a Tory leadership defending pensioner benefits against all - comers while fighting for child benefit cuts on the grounds that «it is very difficult to justify continuing to pay for the child benefit of the wealthiest 15 per cent of families in society».

But a Downing Street source tells today's Daily Mail that the PM is «minded to repeat the pledge» (which has seen pensioner benefits protected throughout this parliament) and that he remains personally committed to preserving the benefits for all pensioners, not just the poorest.

The Chancellor says he will prioritise further cuts to the housing benefit budget before making any changes to universal pensioner benefits.

Hughes issued a blunt warning to the Tories that the government would break up if key pensioner benefits in the coalition agreement were cut.

They remember the promise David Cameron made in the election debates not to chop pensioner benefits.

Most Conservative MPs, with elderly constituents who are assiduous voters, support David Cameron's pledges to protect pensioner benefits and some would have defeated attempts to remove them.

But the most significant moment of the session was undoubtedly Cameron's response to a question on pensioner benefits.

Means - tested pensioner benefits will be swept away to fund this new «citizen's pension» and the reform will, it is said, be funded by the later retirement age and abolishing the complex bureaucracy that administers the humiliating process of form - filling that stands between pensioners and top - up benefits.

The pensioners» manifesto also included commitments on inheritance tax, annuities, pensioner benefits and same - day GP appointments for all over 75s who need them.

The Daily Mail and Times (#) are among the newspapers to confirm last week's story that Downing Street has decided to revisit David Cameron's election time pledge to protect all pensioner benefits such as the Winter Fuel Allowance.

«This will mean that, following the next election, disability benefits, pensioner benefits and pensions themselves will need to be considered.

There would certainly be further welfare cuts (Osborne has previously declared that he hopes to cut «billions» more from the budget), but pensioner benefits would not be first in line.

As Hughes spoke in the Commons, the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, indicated that pensioner benefits could be threatened.

Numbers 10 and 11 fear a U-turn on pensioner benefits could cause problems not unlike the Liberal Democrats» U-turn on tution fees.