-
Recent Posts
Topics
- ABOUT GRUMBLESMILES (8)
- ELDERLY MARKET (47)
- Economy (4)
- Grey Products (20)
- ELDERLY UK POLICY (136)
- Assisted Suicide (16)
- Care Funding (13)
- Pensions (20)
- GRUMBLES (40)
- GRUMBLESMILES TRUST (68)
- HEALTH (190)
- Dementia (42)
- N.H.S. (41)
- Nursing Homes (4)
- RETIREMENT HOUSING (80)
- Residential Care (33)
- Sheltered Housing (1)
- SMILES (237)
Archives
TAG CLOUD
- "Age Friendly"
- "A Happiness Ladder"
- "A Health Ladder"
- "A Horizon Ladder"
- "America"
- "A Wealth Ladder"
- "Befuddled"
- "Breakfast"
- "Community Retirement Villages"
- "Dignity be damned"
- "EMFV"
- "ExtraCare Traditions"
- "Francis Report"
- "Fruitful Research"
- "GrumbleSmiles Post"
- "Home Alone"
- "Japan Odyssey"
- "Lift your Spirits"
- "LLLP"
- "Mediterranean Reflections"
- "My Garden Age"
- "Neglect Shames Britain"
- "New Vision of Later Life"
- "Old Geek"
- "Pension Crystal Ball"
- "Pills"
- "poorly feet"
- "Princethorpe Court Story"
- "Rambling"
- "Same Old Same Old"
- "Southern Cross"
- "Technology Gap"
- "The Slippery Slope"
- "Uplifting Experience"
- " Walk for Life "
- " £140 Pension Illusion"
- ageing
- Age UK
- alzheimer's
- assisted suicide
- baby boomers
- Bears
- bus pass
- CAFE PROJECT
- care funding
- Care Quality Commission
- Cheylesmore Good Neighbours
- Cloud Surfing
- Clutter
- Daily Mail
- Dementia
- Demographics
- Dilnot Commission
- Equity Release
- Euthanasia
- Exercise
- GPs
- Grandparents
- grey market
- GRUMBLES
- Koans
- Molly's Story
- NHS
- packaging
- Patients' Association
- pensions
- research
- Retirement
- Small Print
- smiles
- Stairlifts
- Strokes
- Welsh Housing
- Wrinkles
- ”Welfare Benefits”
Tag Archives: ” £140 Pension Illusion”
Pensioners votes taken forgranted.
The Conservative Party has long seen itself as a champion of older people. It prides and preens itself as a supporter of British values. This has kept it in power through the last two general elections, propped up by the … Continue reading
“Pensions Deception”
This follows on from the previous blog “Illusion turns to Deception”. They are part of a thread I have been writing about ever since the current Government announced its radical move to a £140 ooops! £155 state pension. All the posts … Continue reading
“Illusion turns to Deception”
I’ve been writing about pensions since I started this blog four years ago. It has always been a fairly unfathomable subject. But in 2010 the Coalition Government promised, not only to radically simplify the state pension, but also to significantly increase … Continue reading
“Now You See It”
If I were the Prime Minister half way through my first term in office, I would be beginning to think about how I could be re-elected for a second term. I would want something that would appeal to a large … Continue reading
“Pension Cuts on the Way”
Either I must be psychic, which I doubt, or the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State for Works and Pensions – Mr Ian Duncan-Smith and just about the whole of the Conservative Party, and the Editor of The Times, must be … Continue reading
A Cruel Deception.
I wrote scathingly about the £140 state pension when it was first heralded as a great step forward by Ian Duncan Smith, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. (Click on Pensions under Topics to see more, or find … Continue reading
” The £140 Pension Illusion” 3
Is this a cruel April 1st joke ? I first started writing about this subject back in October last year when the pensions minister Steve Webb anounced a headline grabbing huge 40%rise in the state pension. More recently on the … Continue reading
