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The amount of Winter Fuel Payment You will receive £200 if at least one qualifying person in the household is aged between State Pension age and 79. The payment will be £300 if at least one qualifying person ... Payments are tax-free and do not affect your other benefits. The main claimant of the qualifying benefit will receive the payment for the household. Age UK factsheet 49 (Amended September 2024) June 2024 Social
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difficult to see a doctor that I just don’t bother […] I get the impression that primary care services will never return to pre-pandemic levels’ Others found accessing help so difficult for family members that ... normal day to day functions is impacting on their mental health. ‘Not getting any information on when I will get my hip replacement operation. So not being able to do my daily duties is having a detrimental
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for public policy reasons (particularly pensions, care funding and debt) and that the market-place will not provide, or only at a cost that those affected cannot afford – for example, advice on what to ... with the open market annuity option). A statutory role can build in some form of regulation that will deter fraud – for example, the Pension Schemes Act 2015 ‘designates’ providers of Pensions Guidance
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halved by 2020. • The new single-tier State Pension starting in April 2016 will be more generous for some, though others will receive the same or less than under the old system. The Government must improve ... perform a vital role in the lives of older people, and require greater investment. • The Government will have saved £6 billion over the course of this Parliament by delaying the introduction of a lifetime
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daily living, but as we move into our ninth decade and beyond this becomes less common and more of us will need help. Increasing numbers of those providing care are themselves older people. The peak age for ... traditionally provided for older family members, and so shift this responsibility to the state. These forces will unite to add further stress to social care budgets that help people to maintain independence within
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English language skills.8 Welsh Government’s ‘More than just words’ five-year plan9 details how they will embed Welsh language in health and social care so that people can access the care they deserve and ... 15 We welcome the commencement by the Welsh Government of the Socio-economic Duty in Wales, and we will be looking to Welsh Government to ensure that pensioners living in poverty benefit from this new measure
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feeling more and more confident, as an individual it will help me keep in touch with loved ones and facilitate my need to bank online. I also think I will benefit from using the internet to gain knowledge ... little…being able to talk confidently. And just to be able to say on my CV [that] I’ve done this, that will open doors for me as a person, like in my career as well as in my personality and my social skills”
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believes there is nothing to be gained from further reducing employment protection in this way. Doing so will only serve to create a two-tier workforce with those employed by micro-businesses enjoying less protection ... making such employers less desirable to potential recruits. In addition, there is a risk that it will undermine efforts to extend working lives. Once out of work, older workers often find it difficult
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maximising people’s autonomy and wellbeing while also supporting their health and recovery. This balance will obviously vary based on the wishes and needs of the individual. As such, we would like to echo the ... social and leisure activities are legitimate goals of intermediate care’ which we fully support and will often go beyond what most services offer by default. A person’s goals must be the starting point for
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rising and more people needing to work for longer, it is inevitable that the welfare-to-work system will experience a rise in the number of older jobseekers over the next few years. People aged 50+ on ... increased over time, and with State Pension age increasing to 66 within the next five years, this cohort will become an increasingly important group within the back-to-work system. 2.5 Successful job outcome
