Sentences with phrase «protect 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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

It is a matter in the hands of local authorities, but there is an argument to protect this benefit, while making it taxable for wealthy pensioners by adjusting the level of taxable allowances.)

Over half of the annual # 200 billion spent on benefits is spent on pensioners, but they have been spared any of the pain of austerity after the 2010 Tory manifesto pledged to protect them.

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.

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.

Vowing to «protect the most vulnerable», Osborne said he would preserve child benefit, winter fuel payments and free TV licences for pensioners.

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.

Wealthy pensioners will still get benefits like free bus passes and winter fuel payments until 2015 because David Cameron promised to protect them during the 2010 campaign.

A clever political strike, trying to turn to the Coalition's advantage the Tories» embarrassment at having been forced to protect these benefits for pensioners because of David Cameron's cowardice during the televised debates during the election campaign in April.

• Facilitate the restructuring of pension plans affected by corporate reorganizations, while protecting benefit security for plan members and pensioners;