Labour Puts Our Oap Into Poverty ; One in Five Pensioners On the Breadline
Mail on Sunday › February 23, 2006
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ONE in five pensioners in Scotland is living below the poverty line.
Some 170,000 retired people are surviving on less than Pounds 100 a week as they struggle to cope with soaring fuel and council tax bills.See the full content of this document
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Labour Puts Our Oap Into Poverty ; One in Five Pensioners On the Breadline
That figure, coupled with recent figures showing record numbers of OAPs dying from malnutrition, paints a bleak picture of the elderly living out their last years in misery.
Two years ago, Labour Chancellor Gordon Brown promised ...See the full content of this document
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