All news on the topic: Pensioner

Police have made an arrest after a 72-year-old woman was hit by a car and killed last night.

Earlier this year, the new Labour Government means-tested the DWP benefit so instead of all pensioners over the age of 66 getting between £100 and £300 in support for energy costs this winter only those claiming certain benefits will

The DWP is contacting everyone who is being moved over to Universal Credit in stages - and when it is your turn, you’ll receive a letter in the post known as a ’migration notice’

The warning has come as hundreds of thousands of pensioners across the country could be at risk of receiving a bill from the government tax department next year

Millions of pensioners are set to lose winter fuel payments this year after an attempt to block the cuts failed in Parliament.

TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak made the call as he expressed ’real concerns’ about Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s decision to cut the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners

Winter Fuel Payments used to be available to every household where someone is over state pension age, but now only those claiming means-tested benefits, including Pension Credit, can get it

Charity Independent Age has warned a shake-up of winter fuel payments could be dangerous as new data suggests hundreds of thousands who are entitled to it could miss out

Former pensions minister Sir Steve Webb has been contacted by four people who had not been awarded any inherited state pension when they retired when they should have been

New category of widows and widowers on receiving end of DWP errors, says former minister

The new figures from My Pension Expert highlight how savers still face ’significant delays’ when trying to move their money, with an improvement of just one day compared to the previous year

Police in Kent are investigating after two elderly people were found dead at a property in Sandwich, a port town in Kent - officers have launched an investigation into the tragedy

He then allegedly tried to kill himself while lying awake next to her

A council has been fined £100,000 after a vulnerable pensioner choked to death on a sandwich.

The state pension increased by 8.5% this month, in line with September 2023’s wage growth figures, but the latest hike could lead 400,000 people into income tax brackets

Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has refused to increase the threshold when people start paying income tax so record numbers of pensioners are being landed with tax bills

Angela Madden, who chairs the WASPI campaign which seeks justice over the pension age scandal, says Labour and the Conservatives must commit to a compensation plan fast

Mirror agony aunt Coleen Nolan advises a reader who gets by on a small pension and relies on handouts from her secretive husband

After weeks of speculation, the Chancellor finally shared his fiscal plan ahead of the General Election and here we take a look at who is classed as a"winner" in today's budget and who is classed as a "loser"

Mike Fisher, 90, is still averaging a hattrick every game following a footballing career which began 75 years ago in 1949

Roger Clarke, 77, was transferred from an open prison to a maximum security jail after his complaints about breaching of his human rights landed him in hot water with prison bosses

Henrietta "Hetty" Thornber, who turned 104 today, has spoken of her long and eventful life in which she survived the Blitz as a twenty-something in Bootle, Merseyside

Stephen Habberley, 64, an SAS veteran, had a long running row with Keys Group who often carried out work in the lane behind where they rented and suffered a heart attack after getting in a dispute with builders