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your totals. 7 How your fundraising makes a difference The donations you raise through sponsorship will go directly to funding two of our major lifeline services for older people. Both services rely on ... of issues that older people may need support with in later life. Anglesey - North West Wales “This will change our lives, this is more (benefit) than we thought possible. Thank you so much.” “Thank you
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adviser do? 5 3.1 Initial contact 5 3.2 Looking at your finances 5 3.3 Discussing your options 6 3.4 Will my adviser speak to my creditors on my behalf? 6 3.5 Are debt advisers qualified? 6 4 How to prioritise ... unopened bills, through reaching an agreement with your creditors or other appropriate solutions. Age UK will always advise you to seek free independent regulated debt advice and to ensure you address the stages
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the likely economic impacts of the cost of living crunch? Around 165,000 older households1 in Wales will have insufficient income to cover their essential spending this year2, with almost two fifths of these ... poverty or just above the poverty line and/or in receipt of benefits.3 The poorest older households4 will need to drastically increase the percentage of their net income spent on essential goods and services
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extreme, older people are sometimes discharged without appropriate measures taken to ensure that they will be safe and cared for whilst they recover at home. One person told us: “You can be discharged the ... dedicated to older people’s social care services has reduced by 13% in real terms.3 This reduction will have an effect on the quality of discharge processes. The availability of advocacy should be examined
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sustainable. The Health Foundation has estimated that even with recent Government investment, there will still be a funding gap of around £2.1 billion by 2019/20, just to maintain care at the same level ... mean that spending on adult social care could be 4.8 per cent lower per adult by 2019/20ii. 4 Nor will local sources of funding, together with occasional short-term injections of cash from central Government
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available in the adult advocacy sector. Our concerns are that, as currently drafted: 1. The regulations will compromise the fundamental independence of advocacy services, and therefore militate against the ability ... states: The Advocacy provider and advocates will put the people they advocate for first, ensuring they are directed by their wishes and feelings. Advocates will be non-judgmental and respectful of people’s
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circumstances. 3 We welcome FCA’s work on fair treatment of long-term customers and hope that they will apply the lessons learnt to both new business models, particularly new retirement income models, but ... various principles which consumer industries should meet such as: access to goods and services that will meet consumer needs; value for money; a real choice of goods and services; safety and security; redress;
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Whether it’s due to losing someone close or because you’ve recently separated from your partner, you may find yourself living alone. But with a little help, living alone is something that most of us can adapt to.
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improving the consumer landscape and quicker switching across a range of consumer markets.1 The findings will influence the Better Markets Bill later this year. Introduction Age UK is the country's largest ... ‘overpayments’3 resulting from staying on default tariffs. 8. The Government should acknowledge that some people will not switch, and ensure that prices are not set at disproportionately and unfairly high rates. We are
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supports the extension of the right to request flexible working to all employees. We are hopeful it will help engender a positive cultural change in favour of flexibile working, while providing employees ... confidence to raise work-life balance issues with their employer. We believe the right to request will provide a legal basis to underpin a system where both formally and informally arranged flexible working
