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Government extends NI top-up deadline to 2025
Taxpayers now have until 5 April 2025 to fill gaps in their National Insurance record from April 2006 that may increase their State Pension – an extension of nearly two years – the government announced today (12 June).
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1.5 million older unpaid carers “under strain”
Age UK has highlighted the plight of unpaid older carers who shoulder an enormous amount of responsibility, often without the support they need and has called on Government to provide more support.
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Lincolnshire project looking for focus group participants
The University of Lincoln is looking for older people to take part in a one-hour focus group to talk about the knowledge, skills, and qualities required to support physical activity engagement in older adults.
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Independent Age launches campaigning toolkit
They explain how to campaign, include guides about how councils and other bodies make decisions in England and Scotland – and can be used to build a campaign about any issue.
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“No end to the nightmare in sight”: Charities respond to Ofgem’s price cap announcement
Charities are expressing their concerns that – despite the reduction in average energy bills as from July – many pensioner households will face real hardship in the months ahead.
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Celebrating the reciprocal benefits of homesharing
Caroline Cooke, director at CIC Share and Care Homeshare, describes the valuable contributions that both younger and older people bring to intergenerational living arrangements… and the reciprocal benefits.
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Pension credit take up “a drop in the ocean”
Independent Age reacts to disappointing Pension Credit caseload statistics: “These numbers show that the government’s broad brush approach of awareness raising simply isn’t working fast enough.”
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“Nothing about us without us.” Yeah, right.
The “taskforce to transform older people’s housing” has been announced… with not one older person on it. If this isn’t ageist, what is? asks Tony Watts OBE.
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So how many older people DID lose their vote at the local elections… and will the law now change back?
Now we know that the introduction of Voter ID was, in a former cabinet minister’s own words, “gerrymandering”, and that it stopped many older people from voting, is it not time to change the rules back to where they were, asks Tony Watts OBE.
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Sounds brilliant: tuning in to age friendly radio
If you’re not already an avid listener, you might want to tune into the great output of The Later Life Audio and Radio Cooperative (LLARC): an award-winning and growing network of older radio show hosts, age-friendly radio stations, voluntary and community sector organisations and academic researchers working on age-related issues.
