fortyone. Actually the real issue isnt poverty among the elderly. The real issue is the level of State pension in this country that has already been paid for via a working life of contributing to it, even millionaire pensioners have the right to a decent level of basic State pension .
We have pensioners using food banks in this country, and this is disgusting.
We can argue poverty all day and all night, which im not about to do.
Every single person in this country of retirement age has the right to a decent level of basic State pension. Its not rocket science. Its just the way it should be...
I could have used a food bank last week.
I only went in to a church to buy a coffee and a cake and they assumed I wanted the food bank.
I did laugh and say that the donors would not be pleased if they saw me taking food from the foodbank.
Only people who have contributed should be allowed a decent state pension.
One man I know claims he worked hard all his life but did cash in hand jobs paying no tax for years.
I don't know what he did but where is the government supposed to get the money to pay him a decent pension.