Sentences with phrase «pensioner 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.
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The former prime minister said pensioner poverty affected one in three older Britons in the early 90s, but that rate had fallen to one in 10 by the time Labour left office in 2010.
In the early 90s, pensioner poverty affected one in three older Britons.
«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.»
«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.
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.
«Since 1997 we have reduced absolute pensioner poverty by 1.9 million and our radical reforms of the state pension have made it fairer, more generous and more widely available,» he said.
It is now set out in the Government's own figures that pensioner poverty in this country is at its lowest level for 30 years.»
«I've been with Jeremy while we introduced the minimum wage, when we introduced the education maintenance allowance, when we introduced sure start children's centres, when we reduced child poverty, when we attacked pensioner poverty, when we gave trade unionists the right to be represented, the right not to be sacked for going on strike.
Help the Aged spokeswoman Anna Pearson said the government's failure to meet its target was «extremely disappointing», but urged it to act immediately on the NAO's call for a wider approach to tackling pensioner poverty.
Reaching out to the grey vote, Lucas said pensioner poverty — with one in every four living in poverty — was «a scandal».
The Conservatives last night attacked the government's «U-turn» while campaigners warned it risked condemning women to pensioner poverty.
The union says the company has closed its defined benefit, or final salary, pension scheme, offering new entrants an «inferior» scheme which the CWU claim will leave them in «pensioner poverty».