A Year of Hard Truths: 2014

A Year of Hard Truths: 2014 Renewing the Pensioners Pledge! The first part: maintaining the State Pension is essential and I do not see any problem making our children work longer before the receive it. They have an increasing life expectancy and will be healthier in their late sixties than we are so capable of working longer. Many will want to! But the free TV licence, Winter Fuel allowance and free bus passes are different. Naturally those who live on a state pension should continue to receive them. But those who are above this level perhaps not. The cost is circa £4b and there is I suggest other priorities. Could perhaps this money be used to cover the cost of ‘of the care we will need in our old age’. Having to sell your home to cover the cost of care during the last years of your life is ‘very unpopular’! How often do you hear ‘ I’ve worked hard and saved all my life only to end that life being discriminated against and my savings taken away from me. Whilst those who have not or, being truthful, those who were unable to save, get a state subsidy So far politicians have not adequately dealt with the issue and the feeling in my generation is that money is ‘still unlimited’ for welfare of immigrants and shirkers, and Foreign Aid but not us! Charity should begin at home