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Regardless of age, very few people feel well all the time. Fortunately, there are a number of ways you can get help when you’re ill, or if you just need advice about your health.
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poorest pensioners The Budget allows more affluent older people to be able to leave more of their estate free of Inheritance Tax Financial inequality is currently growing in the pensioner population: ... poorest is getting wider Pensioners are still missing out of £3.7 billion of means-tested benefits to which they are entitled Material deprivation Over a million pensioners in this country cannot afford
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consulting on draft regulations which will reduce the period of time that Housing Benefit and State Pension Credit can be paid when someone is temporarily out of Great Britain (GB). This will be reduced from ... The changes, due to come in on 1st April 2016, will affect around 130,000 Housing Benefit and Pension Credit claimants. They are expected to reduce benefit expenditure by £20 million in the first year –
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There are various TV licence discounts: If you’re at least 75 years old and recieve Pension Credit you can claim a free TV licence. The free TV licence will cover you and anyone else you live ... sheltered housing qualifies for this type of licence. If you’re aged 75 or over and recieve Pension Credit , you need to apply for a free TV licence as it’s not given out automatically. For an application
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Consultation Response Age UK’s response to the Independent Review of the State Pension age December 2016 Ref 4016 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce ... place, women’s State Pension age will be 65 from November 2018, 66 for both men and women from October 2020 and 67 from March 2028. Current legislation also increases State Pension age to 68 from April
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NI and Age UK Scotland. About this consultation The Lifetime Individual Savings Account (LISA) is intended to help people save for the purpose of providing a first home deposit, or for retirement. A LISA ... while payments attracting a government bonus of 25 per cent – equivalent to basic rate tax relief on pensions – can continue until age 50. Any money not used to buy a house can be withdrawn penalty-free from
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Gavin Thomas Page 11 State Pensions – issues for current and future pensioners – Sally West Page 14 Project 360° - supporting older veterans to access their Armed Forces pension – Heather Ferguson Page ... order to make ends meet. However, 120,000 pensioners in Wales live in poverty.1 It’s a real concern, because while great strides had been made in reducing pensioner poverty, recent years have seen numbers
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PPI PENSIONS POLICY INSTITUTE The financial resilience of the recently retired This report is a report for Age UK’s Financial Services Commission and was initially presented ... of restrictions on accessing Defined Contribution savings. For this reason the report does not take account of these proposed changes. PENSIONS POLICY INSTITUTE The financial resilience of the
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................................................. 12 Entering a low income after reaching State Pension Age ................................................................................. 13 Living on ... Statistics 1.6 million pensioners are in relative poverty, defined as having incomes below 60 per cent median income after housing costs (AHC) in 2011/12.1 14 per cent of women pensioners, compared to 13 per
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means testing for assistance with care home fees 21 5.1 Capital and savings of £50,000 and above 22 5.2 Capital and savings below £50,000 22 6 The financial means test for receiving help towards ... care home fees – how your capital and savings are viewed 23 6.1 Capital held in the value of your home 23 6.2 Disregarded capital 26 6.3 Jointly held capital 27 6.4 ‘Notional’
