Sentences with phrase «said pensioners»

Kolawole said the pensioners were thus not captured in the bailout fund released for state, saying it was the governor, who mandated that the pension should be included in the disbursement.

The Department for Work and Pensions has said pensioners claiming housing benefit now will not be affected by the Government's «bedroom tax».

Retirees are being transferred to new health care plans, with no increase in premiums for this year, at least; a document sent to retirees by the company says the pensioners will bear the cost of any increases in premiums going forward, and that the company has the right to change the plan at any time.

South Yorkshire Police said the pensioner remains in hospital in a serious condition with a «significant neurological injury».

The Chairman Triangular Group of Pensioners in the state, Prince Rotimi Adelugba while addressing press conference in Osogbo noted that the conference was organised to disclaim the claims of some few pensioners who took to the street to say pensioners are still owed up to May.

Reaching out to the grey vote, Lucas said pensioner poverty — with one in every four living in poverty — was «a scandal».

A pensioner, Felix Essar Hianu says pensioners in the country are upset by recent happenings at the Fund and wants a comprehensive report on how the company has utilized their contributions.

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.

Not exact matches

Pensioners took to the streets of Athens earlier this year in protest, and international creditors have said the government needs to make further reforms to the pension system.

Rhodes — who remarked that society holds dear the value of fresh starts and second chances — said the plan to exit bankruptcy is reasonable, although there were appeals from pensioners.

In their call for a higher rate, Quail says the union is joined by groups representing commercial electricity users, industry advocates, and old age pensioners.

Real estate company Sfera Group has said that around 3,000 Russian pensioners emigrate per year, with 160,000 regularly spending long periods abroad.

«Even though the consumption tax is scheduled to be raised by 2 percentage points, a number of measures to mitigate the burden, such as a reduced tax rate and an increase in welfare benefits for pensioners, and the provision of free education are planned to be implanted,» the report said.

Paul Anderson - Walsh made the comment after a report from University College London said that pensioners with a sense of meaning and purpose lived on average two years longer than those who didn't.

Paradoxically, 70 per cent of 15 - 19 year olds said they had experienced prejudice because of their faith - compared to just 51 per cent of pensioners.

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«It seems irrational really for a family home not to be counted when you look at pensioners», you know, capacity to fund themselves for people in multimillion - dollar homes,» Ms Carnell said.

Man United are also said to be keen on John Stones [via the Independent] and may yet rival the Pensioners for the player's signature.

It's hard to say what exactly is and isn't a good tie but Jose Mourinho will probably be glad to have avoided both Bayer Leverkusen and AC Milan and, with the advantage of playing the home leg second, the Pensioners have a great chance to progress.

«There is that great argument that we need to have kids so that we can have a tax base so we can pay for you when you become pensioners,» says Roger Kingkade, a radio DJ in Calgary.

UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: «UNISON is backing this judicial review because we can not allow the coalition to run roughshod over pensioners.

A growing pensioner population, primarily down to increased life expectancy coupled with only minimal changes in the retirement age, has increased costs substantially over the last decade,» he said.

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».

«The new government has frozen council tax, saving hard - working families and pensioners up to # 72 this year,» he said.

The Treasury's own figures say it would be worth an average of # 450 per year for a family with children or # 275 for a pensioner couple.

Cat Smith's suggestion that demographics are on Labour's side — because individuals turning 18 are statistically likely to be leftwing, whereas Tory voters are mainly pensioners — was greeted with derision, but I was sat on that same panel and it wasn't the only thing she said.

Well - off pensioners should face cuts to their winter fuel allowance to help pay for «catastrophic» care costs, a former Liberal Democrat minister has said.

Today, pensioners are no more likely to be poor than any other group in society,» he said.

«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.

But this ageism quagmire aside, it's worth picking apart why what he said was so stupid, because the standard narrative of «racist, xenophobic, pensioners sold us down the river» just doesn't add up.

A Lib Dem source said: «We have consistently blocked Conservative attempts to freeze benefits for the working - age poor just as they have blocked our attempt to cut benefits for the wealthiest pensioners.

«That means better sharing of information in government departments to guarantee that pensioners get what they are entitled to,» she said.

However, it says the efforts used to improve take - up of the pension credit should now be applied to other benefits targeted at pensioners, and a new target encompassing the help provided for housing and council tax should be introduced.

«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.

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.

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said that the shadow chancellor Ed Balls» pledge to axe winter fuel payments for wealthier pensioners shows he is «making it up as he goes along»:

Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers» Alliance, said: «Council tax has doubled in the last decade and is now so high that it tips many families and pensioners over the edge.

But the poll contained similar criticisms of the chancellor's Budget last week, with 49 % saying the scrapping of pensioner tax allowance was unfair and 53 % saying the reduction of the top rate of tax to 45 % would do «nothing» to help the economy.

«What the state workers are protesting, without prejudice to the Paris Club refunds, are the increment in wages to primary school teachers, local government workers and the increment of pensioners» emoluments,» it said.

Pensions spokesman Danny Alexander said it was disgraceful pensioners could be getting less than they did under Margaret Thatcher, despite ten years of a Labour government.

The report said a scheme like Help to Buy, which helps younger people get on the housing ladder, could help pensioners at the other end of their lives.

12.07 Harman claims no money has been set aside for the move, before saying that pensioners will be hit hard by the VAT increase.

Mr Livingstone said: «Boris Johnson's Tory tax cut for millionaires is being paid for by 400,000 ordinary London pensioners.

«The political leaders of Kogi State and the APC stakeholders have resolved unequivocally to give 4 weeks ultimatum to Governor Yahaya Bello, to reconcile the ongoing staff audit in the state with the realities on ground, pay our civil servants, the pensioners and others,» APC said.

A Labour Government will protect the incomes of twelve million pensioners by legislating to keep the «triple lock», Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, has said.

Alternatively he can say that he has had to change his position and is doing so for the great moral purpose of helping the low paid into work and to ensure better targeting of scarce resources on the very neediest, including poor pensioners.

Though critics have said a mansion tax will force asset - rich, cash - poor pensioners to sell their homes, it's worth bearing in mind that this is exactly what the government's bedroom tax currently proposes for those who are both asset and cash poor.

Brown says he wants to help pensioners.

«While we're in no way complacent about people's income in retirement, the single group of people who have benefited most in terms of their standard of living has been pensioners,» she says.

«There are almost a million «asset - rich income - poor» pensioners - those living in big houses but on small incomes,» said IPPR's head of social policy, Jim Bennett.