Sentences with phrase «pensioner households»

Last week, the Conservative Free Enterprise Group called for free bus passes, free TV licences and winter fuel payments to be withdrawn entirely from the wealthiest pensioner households.

Moreover, 49 % of all fuel poor households receive no Winter Fuel Payment, as they are not pensioner households.

A DWP spokesman responded: «Council tax benefit helps over five million people on low incomes, including over 2.5 million pensioner households.

Spending more money on apprenticeships and reducing council tax for all - pensioner households were also high up the list.

The NAO finds the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has made «real and substantial progress» since its last report in 2002, noting that # 6 billion was given out in pension credits to 2.7 million pensioner households last year - a take up rate of about 69 per cent.

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».

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An added problem is that pensioners have become, in many cases, the only source of income in a household.

The household debt - to - income figure includes Newfoundlanders and British Columbians, freshman university students and pensioners, debt - free misers and hedonistic maniacs.

Some 70 % of shares in U.S. - listed companies today are held by mutual funds, pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign funds, and other institutional investors, which manage them on behalf of beneficiaries such as households, pensioners, policy holders, and governments.

Impact assessments produced by the Department already illustrate that many of the proposals would severely impact on the poorest households, in particular those pensioners living on their own.

The rest are mainly low - income working households, pensioners or the disabled.»

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.

Now what that will enable you to do is to cushion the blow of the current council tax increases, but also that will be of particular help to those single households, and in particular of course, the pensioners; they are the ones that are suffering the most.