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– Rapid review 2016 6 pensions or benefits. Some local Age UKs already offer advocacy and information for older prisoners due for release. Older long-term prisoners may have lost contact with family, particularly ... end of life while still serving a prison sentence, who have spent a long time in prison and may have lost contact with friends and family, dying in prison may be
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living in later life. This paper explores some of the reasons for this precariousness. Firstly, pensions are changing. With defined benefit schemes having seen their peak, families must work harder to ... of people actively contributing to a pension has fallen, and at present, over two-thirds of people in low and middle households have no pension or a frozen pension (this compares to 41 per cent of people
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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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disturbance in the functioning of, the mind or brain”. When anyone acts on behalf of another person who has lost capacity – including a ‘suitable person’ in the case of social care direct payments – they must act ... National Insurance contributions; sick pay; holiday pay; employer’s liability insurance; pension contributions; and potentially redundancy payments if a care worker’s employment ends. The Welsh
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covering financial decisions. The LPA for health and care decisions can only be used when someone has lost mental capacity, while the LPA for financial decisions can be used immediately, if this is what the ... (like Pension Credit) that the person you care for may claim, so make sure you check – your local Age UK can help with this. In Wales, speak to your local Age Cymru. If you receive State Pension at a higher
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provide the information and advice service to refer people on to specialist organisations who may have lost funding as a consequence of tendering arrangements or who generally do not receive funding to provide ... advice is not to the detriment of the provision of information and advice in other formats 120,000 pensioners in Wales live in poverty.7 A major issue is that millions of pounds of entitlements go unclaimed
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Statutory Sick Pay (so long as they have met the Lower Earnings Limit); Automatic enrolment for pensions; Protection from unlawful deductions from wages; Right to receive the National Minimum Wage ... for work-related time including travel time; There was the risk of losing pay, especially if they lost clients due to illness or death; There was the need to work extended hours to earn sufficient income;
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years however income poverty remains a critical issue for hundreds of thousands of pensioners. There are 1.6 million pensioners living in poverty in the UK and nearly a million of these are in severe poverty1 ... increasingly reporting that they see people in their 50s and early 60s, as well as those over State Pension age, in need of support. It seems that the majority who are referred to food banks are of working
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Budgeting Loans from the Social Fund scheme (operated by the Department for Work & Pensions – DWP) 47 13.3 The Welsh Government’s Discretionary Assistance ... 13 of 62 Someone’s “basic entitlement” (this is either the level of Pension Credit Guarantee Credit that someone receives, or if not getting this benefit, an equivalent amount
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older people – particularly those with no private transport. 8 Transport Key facts 35 per cent of pensioner households in rural areas have no access to a car or van.9 In 2009, only 47 per cent of households ... dependent on private transport. Car ownership is greater in rural areas, however more than a third of pensioner households have no access to a car or van, and some have given up driving because of ill health
