Blog posts tagged "pensioners"

April 19, 2012 11:11 am 4 Comments

Which generation has been hit hardest by the government's austerity measures? It is the question that has been at the top of the political agenda since the budget sparked accusations that the government was raiding pensioner's pockets with a new Granny Tax. FactCheck investigates.

September 28, 2010 1:01 pm 138 Comments

People who get government help to pay their mortgage interest are going to see that help cut by half from October 1st. It may save £15m but who's it going to hit the hardest?

September 27, 2010 1:39 pm 19 Comments

CutsCheck looks at what cuts to local authority budgets are likely to mean for social care for older people

8:21 am 6 Comments

During the Labour conference in Manchester, CutsCheck looks at the cuts the city council is making ahead of the comprehensive spending review next month.

July 16, 2010 5:59 pm 32 Comments

David Cameron promised before the election to protect free bus passes for the elderly. Will he keep that promise?

April 23, 2010 6:51 pm 7 Comments

The claims “David, I have not authorised any leaflets like that.” Gordon Brown, Leaders’ debate, 22 April 2010 Cathy Newman checks it out We’ve just published a FactCheck which shows that David Cameron was right that Labour’s leaflets contained “lies” - but that’s only half the story. The bigger question is this: did Gordon Brown authorise the dodgy claims? He [...]

5:59 pm 11 Comments

David Cameron accuses Gordon Brown of spreading Labour "lies" about the Conservative party in their leaflets.

4:07 pm 21 Comments

The claim “I got a letter a few months ago from an elderly couple who said to me they now find it so difficult to heat their homes on cold winter days that on those cold winter days they get into a bus in their town and travel round the bus just to stay warm.” [...]

March 23, 2010 7:13 pm 10 Comments

David Cameron claims that Labour election leaflets "are quite simply lies" when they say his party would cut the winter fuel allowance, free bus travel and the free TV licence.