TRUSS ENERGY PACKAGE FAILS OLDER PEOPLE (BRIEFING 42/22)...

 

TRUSS ENERGY PACKAGE FAILS OLDER PEOPLE (BRIEFING 42/22)

The Prime Minister’s energy statement today offered no extra help for struggling state pensioner households and indeed there was no direct mention of older people at all. 

Silver Voices made the following immediate statement to the national media: 

“Fixing the energy cap £500 above its current level, without increasing the basic income of millions of state pensioners, is embedding a permanent cut in living standards and will not prevent a co...