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The care plan especially needs the numbers. If the plan is to change how pensions rise after 2030 to help fund it, say exactly how much that raises and what the average pensioner actually gets.
#SocialCare #Pensions

Read our full statement from our Deputy Director for Work, Retirement and Transitions Dr Andrea Barry: ageing-better.org.uk/news/triple-...

#StatePension #TripleLock #Pensions

Join me in calling on the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to protect our retirement savings with a credible climate plan, responsible investments, and respect for Indigenous rights. Add your name: win.newmode.net/shiftaction/... #cdnpoli #pensions #Climate #Investing

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/29/cutting-uk-immigration-means-billions-less-for-the-treasury. Quite so - which means less for #education, the #NHS, #pensions, #housing, #socialservices, #defence, the #police - the lot - but try telling that to the likes of Daniel Thomas & […]

#Labour #Burnham another corporate #dog in Downing Street.
Like most politicians, Burnham's a #pernicious bought-&-paid-for #puppet.
Attacking pensioners, despite having paid for their #pensions all their working lives & seeing it eroded by rampant inflation.
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

Andy Burnham has put free social care back on the political agenda — but is the National Care Service really a progressive policy?

#SocialCare #AndyBurnham #NationalCareService #nhs #pensions #PublicSpending

jon-chadwick.com/2026/09/29/s...

#BBCNews Why are we even considering scrapping the #TripleLock? #Pensioners contributed all their lives, as a percentage of pay, so inflation-adjusted. It's crazy that #StatePension is paid from current money. We need to set up and pay #pensions from a Sovereign Fund and respect our senior citizens

You tell 'em, Sharon!

#pensions versus #wealthTax

I've seen articles in the Press this year about how the UK's #tripleLock pension r 'unaffordable'.

NOWHERE in our Press have I seen articles about the scandalous fact that UK #pensions are in fact the LOWEST in Western Europe, despite the UK having the sixth largest economy in the entire world.

#Pensions in western europe:

"We’re the lowest in the G7 in terms of how much we spend on #pensions. I think that’s an embarrassment, quite frankly, because we’re one of the six richest economies in the world."

- Sharon Graham, head of Unite Trade Union

> so don't listen to the newspaper pundits saying triple-lock HAS to go

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