Tag Archives: Pension Credit
Why small pots are jeopardising state benefits
In this article I explain why it’s often best for people with small pension pots to spend their income before they get to state pension age. The over-prudent who hold back – can risk losing out on pension credit. … Continue reading
Help your parents – help yourself. How the mid-life MOT could ease pensioner poverty today!
I am not greatly involved in giving financial education to 40 and 50 year olds. I have not participated in or helped in the design of the mid-life MOT but I have just lived through these two decades of … Continue reading
Today is Pension Credit Awareness Day – Tell Aunty!
Receiving #PensionCredit means pensioners could also get support for: – Council Tax – Heating – Housing – NHS and dental care – TV Licence – plus more Join the #PensionCredit day of action, Wed 15 Jun, and encourage your family … Continue reading
Pension credit – why don’t you get it? (old lags rhyme)
In need of inspiration.. I’m listening to a lot of grime My son sends it all the time I’d be lying if I found the tunes sublime Black the Ripper – Afro Samurai As merry as long-covid patients standing in a … Continue reading
Pension Credit take-up and automation – can the private sector help?
Summary; five recommendations to improve take-up, five to increase automation Participation; Targeted interventions Target the children of elderly parents (40-year-old upwards) for PC and over 80s Red-flag PC to the over 60s on dashboards whose projected benefits … Continue reading
The biggest losers of a market crash aren’t in the market.
Running around the Barbican last night I was listening to a Crowdcast on how you value shares and trying to work out how a whole stock market can be down 4% in a day. The weather was clement, there was … Continue reading
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Five compelling why pensioner poverty is all of our business
I am so pleased with the response to the campaign that Gareth and I launched yesterday. The response from the popular press has been great with our campaign being featured in many of the tabloids and local papers. The … Continue reading
Pension Credit – It’s for you! Our campaign is launched.
Gareth Morgan and I are today launching a private campaign to get the private pensions sector to pull its finger out and encourage participation in the DWP’s valuable Pension Credit benefits that not only top-up the state pension but are … Continue reading
The delivery of Pension Credit: Where is the problem? – An alternative view
This post has been sent me by Sidney Harlow (about whom I know nothing but that he lives in Reading). Thank you Sidney for expressing a view that I publish verbatim. I don’t share this view but I suspect … Continue reading
A proposal for Government on pensioner poverty,
In my earlier blog today , I argue that employers and pension providers should cease jawing about extra saving and focus on making existing saving more affordable for those struggling to heat and eat. In this blog, I ask whether … Continue reading
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Tagged DWP, Guy Opperman, heat the human, John Glen, Martin Lewis, Pension Credit
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