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Category: Money Matters News

Older Londoners “losing sleep over financial struggles”

A new report from Age UK London highlights the mounting pressures facing older Londoners.

May 28, 2025
Winter Fuel Payments rethink welcomed, but “more clarity needed”

Charities working with older people have broadly welcomed the shift in Government policy on Winter Fuel Payments, but say great clarity of the finer detail proposed is now needed.

May 22, 2025
Independent Age: “State Pension and social security safety net failing older people”

In a new report from Independent Age, older people describe life on a low income as “limiting”, “joyless” and “like another lockdown”.

May 16, 2025
Report reveals health and finance struggles of older private renters in energy-inefficient homes 

A new report from the charity Independent Age has revealed the difficult experience of older private renters in cold, energy in-efficient homes and the barriers in making the necessary property improvements.  

April 25, 2025
“Urgent action” needed as 1.9m older people in poverty

Independent Age has said that the UK Government’s figures show that “later life poverty is a massive issue that needs tackling”

March 28, 2025
Government’s spring statement “risks abandoning older people”

Hourglass is concerned that the welfare cuts, including a tightening of eligibility for benefits such as PIP, may leave “thousands of older and vulnerable people behind”.

March 28, 2025
Online services “making life harder” for third of over 60s

New research by Age UK has revealed that 1 in 3 (31%) over 60s – equivalent to 5.1 million say life is much harder compared to five years ago because the things they want to do are online.

March 20, 2025
Older people face 450 questions to receive financial support

A new report from Independent Age highlights long and complex application forms for pensioner entitlements

March 20, 2025
Age UK: Many older women experience glaring inequalities

More than one third of women aged 50+ (36%) 4.1 million in England have experienced discrimination on the grounds of their age, sex or race.

March 11, 2025
New report predicts surge in number of older people living in water poverty

Independent Age is calling on the UK Government to introduce a single social tariff in England and Wales to end water postcode lottery

December 12, 2024

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