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FactCheck: will the triple lock pension ‘outstrip’ Winter Fuel Payment losses?
Will the triple lock pension ‘outstrip’ Winter Fuel Payment losses? FactCheck takes look.
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FactCheck: who will no longer get Winter Fuel Payments and who is eligible for pension credit?
The government has changed the rules on who will receive Winter Fuel Payments.
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Pensioners biggest winners in tax, benefits and spending since 2010 – Resolution Foundation
When it comes to tax, benefits and spending, pensioners have been the big winners since 2010, according to the Resolution Foundation think tank.
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Sunak has ‘clear plan’ to lower tax, says Work and Pensions Secretary
Shortly after the manifesto launch, we spoke to the Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride
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‘The Conservatives don’t owe Angela Rayner an apology,’ says work and pensions secretary
Following the announcement, police have dropped an investigation into Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner, we began by asking Mel Stride whether the Conservative party owe her an apology.
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Michael Matheson faces Scottish parliament suspension over £11,000 iPad bill
John Swinney was trying to kick start the SNP’s election campaign this afternoon – but ended explaining why he didn’t think one of his colleagues should be suspended from the Scottish Parliament. Michael Matheson, who racked up thousands in data charges on his parliamentary iPad while abroad, was sanctioned by a Holyrood committee this morning.
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‘Huge difference’ between local election result and General Election says Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride
We spoke to Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride in our Westminster studio.
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Peter Bone: Tory MP faces suspension over finding of bullying and sexual misconduct
An independent panel is recommending that Conservative MP Peter Bone be suspended from the Commons for six weeks for bullying and sexual misconduct.
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Debate: Should the pension triple lock be scrapped?
Earlier we spoke to two former senior government ministers, Conservative MP, Andrea Leadsom – and Labour’s Ben Bradshaw.
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How closing train station ticket offices affects people with disabilities and pensioners
Passengers will have to go online or use ticket machines instead, but many pensioners and people with disabilities say they rely on help from ticket office staff to travel independently.
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Pension incomes could be boosted by £1,000 a year under new government reforms
Pension incomes could be boosted by a thousand pounds a year, the government has claimed, under reforms which it is announcing this evening. The plan is to encourage the UK’s big pension funds to pump more money into smaller start up businesses – and the chancellor is setting out his ideas to the City this…
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Government electoral and legal challenges as Tory MP suspension recommended
The parliament’s standards committee has recommended an eight-week suspension for the former government Chief Whip Chris Pincher. But what has been the reaction in Westminster where the government is facing both electoral and legal challenges?
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MP faces eight-week suspension over groping incident
The government looks likely to face yet another by-election after parliament’s standards committee recommended an eight-week suspension for the former government Chief Whip Chris Pincher for drunkenly groping two men last summer.
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It [privatisation] hasn’t been an absolute disaster’: Work and Pensions secretary on UK’s sewage and water crisis
We spoke to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Mel Stride who is out encouraging parents on Universal Credit to take up new enhanced childcare payments which, starting today, go up by almost 50% for those eligible.
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Hundreds of thousands protest against President Macron’s pension reforms
Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across France in the twelfth day of protests against President Macron’s unpopular pension reforms – which would raise the minimum retirement age to 64. A ruling is expected tomorrow on whether the proposals are constitutional. Some of the protests turned violent as activists clashed with…
