'Received opinion that older people have won out at the expense of the young couldn't be further from the truth'
'Received opinion that older people have won out at the expense of the young couldn't be further from the truth'to the election manifestos range from “disappointment to anger” – with the major parties believing the triple lock alone is “sufficient to buy older people’s votes,” a leading senior citizens’ campaigner has said.ensures that the state pension rises by the highest of 2.
“It seems as if the parties think that a commitment to the triple lock is sufficient to buy older people’s votes and they can move on to other target groups. The triple lock commitment only continues a safeguard to stop retirees from falling further behind,” he added.“No mainstream party has attempted to tackle the very low rate of the basic state pension which consigns any pensioner with no other significant income to the breadline.
Mr Reed said the manifestos had made “sweeping promises” on childcare and for working families, while the only “concrete proposal” on pension reform was the triple lock plus – which “will give very modest reductions on increases already baked into the tax system. And to rub salt into the wounds, neither party has come up with radical proposals to solve the social care crisis, having had five years to do so.
Angela Madden, chair of the Waspi campaign, said the two main parties appeared to have “abandoned” Waspi women. “The NPC wants to see the restoration of the tax threshold to the level it would be, with inflationary rises between 2022 and 2024, with yearly rises in line with inflation – even a triple lock plus wouldn’t do this.
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