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Gordon Brown has renamed the DTI the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR) to reflect its focus on the reduction of red tape and a commitment to entrepreneurship. 2006 Older employees plan to keep on working Older employees are increasingly willing to work on past the traditional retirement age, according to a new survey. called 'baby boomers' have told Heydey, profit organisation set up by Age Concern, they want to work past the state pension age.

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Hancock John Pension Thank you, Hugh Lowe, (Letters, September SR) for your intelligent and informative insights into the pension debate.

As a national organisation we campaign with and on behalf of older people, raise money to help pensioners in need and provide direct services where we have identified a gap in provision. There are many charities throughout the UK that help older people at a local level. Help the Aged works to bring these groups together to share information and expertise and fund their grass roots work. In this way we avoid duplication and make the best use of money and resources.

Pension Widow You quite rightly point out how British pensioners have always been treated as second class citizens. Here I would like to give a few statistics in order to back up your views.

"Requiring compulsory contributions from businesses will hit small firms disproportionately and will be seen as another tax on them." Lord Turner led a commission on pensions for the government which published its findings last November, calling for the retirement age to be raised from 65 to 69. The report also called for the establishment of a national pensions savings scheme, a proposal which the FTSE Group today claimed could produce "massive distortions" in the FTSE 100 index.

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Almost nine million pensioners will face difficulties in paying their fuel bills this winter, according to a survey conducted for Age Concern.

Investment Pension In 1908 when state pensions were first paid in Britain the amount paid was equivalent to 25 percent of the national average wage. This has been eroded over the years to 14.7 percent of the average wage. Put simply, this means that our society now values pensioners even less than 95 years ago.

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Department Pension Work What a condemnation of Britain. We are supposed to have the fourth strongest economy in the world, yet government after government says it cannot provide a living pension.

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Benefit Corporation Guaranty Now, I hope my readers are sitting comfortably before I reveal this next statistic - I don't want anyone to sue me because their relative died laughing. The national average wage is now 535 a week. Don't say I didn't warn you. This is an official government statistic. Looks like the famous book How to Lie with Statistics was right. But I believe that pensioners should accept this figure and demand that the government makes the same provision as it did in 1908. This would bring the single pension up to 131.25 - a big improvement on the present pension.

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Government Pension Secondly, Mr Lowe, you are absolutely right about the differences between Britain and the other western European countries, and also about the reasons for this. It has to be acknowledged that pension provision is under attack across Europe.

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Pension Retirement However, British pensioners are the most vulnerable to these attacks as they are already paid far smaller pensions in respect of the GDP of the country. Again I give a few statistics to ponder: British pensions are now worth 5.4 percent of GDP - in France the figure is 12 percent, in the Netherlands and Germany 13 percent and Austria 14.4 percent. It doesn't take an Einstein to work out how badly British pensioners are treated.

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Atlanta Attorney Pension Finally, Mr Lowe, I've always been a Bolshy worker so I see no reason why I shouldn't become a Bolshy pensioner. With this in mind I am now on the Manchester TUC Pensioners' Committee. I have also attended the last two Pensioners' Parliaments in Blackpool and was on the march in London. Unfortunately the TUC leadership appeared to be half-hearted about this demonstration.

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Pension Uk We must now fight for Respect in pensioner groups. It is the only political party that fully backs the National Pensioners' Convention Manifesto. We should be pointing this out to all pensioner groups and must fight for Respect speakers on all the main platforms at next year's Pensioners' Parliament.

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