Sentences with phrase «tackle 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.

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.

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«Winter fuel payments should be taken from rich pensioners and the cash used to tackle fuel poverty, MPs say.

«Given that the term «fuel poverty» does not seem to have been used once in yesterday's Budget statement, can the Secretary of State confirm that Warm Front will be sufficient to address Age Concern's assessment of the Budget that its failure to tackle fuel poverty will continue to leave more pensioners out in the cold?