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employers. However, enrolled workers will have to save more than the minimum required amounts if they are to build a sufficient retirement income. Whether or not they will do so is yet to be seen. Moreover ... their 40s, for example, will not be able to build up a decent pension under auto enrolment alone. Many still distrust the pensions industry and underestimate just how much they will need to have saved by
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6 Foreword The Lord Filkin, CBE My granddaughter, if all goes well, will live to be 100; she has the energy to do so! Many of us will live ten years longer than expected at our birth. This increase in our ... example, one service compared with another, or a proposed new policy compared to today’s arrangements. I will come back to how the cost and outcome evidence might be used in a moment. But it is important to emphasise
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losing their entitlement to local authority help. In the longer term, rising numbers of older people will lead to increased demand for care and support. Support for the person needing care is often heavily ... time-frame for older carers. The current Government has established a Care Commission and has said that it will publish a ‘re-focused Carers’ Strategy’ in April 2011 and plans to ‘improve access to respite care
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introduced in April 2016. These include how Local Authorities will calculate and meter someone’s contribution towards their care costs, the ways people will be able to keep track of their progress towards the cap ... cap, an increase in the means test capital limits and how the level of the cap will be regularly uprated. Key points and recommendations Age UK welcomes the Government’s intention to introduce the cap
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people are aware that the State Pension system is changing, many do not fully understand how this will affect them. People often have limited knowledge about pensions, and upbeat political messages and ... issue has been reported in the media, have given some people a misleading impression of what they will receive. The DWP should regularly publish tracking information and also carry out more indepth
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Placing proportionality and equality at the heart of all decisions Introduction Local authorities will be bracing themselves for the worst this autumn, as the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review ... whatever reason, have been less able to prepare, will be facing even tougher times ahead. People in later life recognise that the services they value will not be exempt from consideration when local authorities
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touched older people’s lives, what are the questions that older people have raised with us, and what will be Age UK’s priorities, as the policy agenda develops, to ensure a better later life for everyone ... secondary legislation, which is devolved. 2. Equality and Human Rights A major area of focus for Age UK will be to ensure that older people’s position is strengthened, not weakened, by any possible changes to
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low incomes often have a very limited expectation of what is absolutely necessary – things that they will buy come what may. This means that they may potentially still have a bit to spare on those other things ... out essentials. A further uncertainty, illustrated by Jill’s case, was whether services provision will continue at its present level. People want certainties in later life, and in the present climate they
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government’s Equality Strategy The government has issued an Equality Strategy(3) which outlines the steps it will take to achieve improvements. Its five priorities are: Early years, education and social mobility ... trial participation suggests there is no evidence that people from minority ethnic groups are less willing to take part in clinical trials but recruiters’ concerns about the increased time and resources to
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(artist) managed to complete them. Some are planning to display them in their rooms whilst others will give them to loved ones to cherish – Care Home Manager 4 The residents said that they felt very ... wear gas masks as a child, not able to go out etc., so to him this is just another illness that we will get through. Facilitator: One resident told me Covid was hard in the home; she was diagnosed with
