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Charities and experts urge government to honour pledge on energy efficiency as it looks to pay for policy reversalPlans to reinstate the winter fuel payment will be undermined if the government presses ahead with mooted cuts to home insulation upgrades…
After months of mounting anger from voters and pressure from MPs No 10 accepted a change had to be madeRarely are British voters united by one issue, but Labour MPs returning to Westminster after the local election campaign this month all reported a si…
Threshold for top-up could be raised, opening door to government revisiting other unpopular benefits cutsKeir Starmer has announced a partial U-turn that would make more pensioners eligible for winter fuel payments, as government figures opened the doo…
Government to loosen eligibility rules for pensioners in face of backlash against decision to means test benefitUK politics live – latest updates
Keir Starmer has confirmed that he wants more pensioners to be eligible for winter fuel payments after a …
A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residentsUS nursing home employees: do you have information about UnitedHealth’s nursing ho…
Downing Street unable to say how many more pensioners would receive winter fuel payments or when changes would come inYouGov has published more details of its polling on the electorate’s relationship with Labour, as covered in the Sky News report menti…
Keir Starmer did not deny a rethink of benefit cut to 10 million pensioners blamed for Labour’s electoral lossesDowning Street is actively investigating changes to the controversial winter fuel payment cut over growing concerns about the policy’s deep …
Kingdom Services boss says retailers seeing ‘different sort of shoplifter’ with more theft by people ‘who just can’t afford food’Food retailers have seen a “massive” increase in pensioner shoplifters over the last year, according to a leading store sec…
Royal College of Emergency Medicine says many endured ‘degrading and dehumanising’ waits on trolleysMore than 1 million older people a year in England are forced to wait longer than 12 hours in A&E, with many having to endure “degrading and dehuman…
Joan Partridge, in Redditch, is collaborating with cosmetics firm after post showing her beauty routine went viralAt 103 years old, dispensing pearls of wisdom is second nature to Joan Partridge. But even she was surprised when a video of her applying …