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STATE PENSIONS

CAMPAIGNING TO:

1. RETAIN THE UNIVERSAL STATE PENSION
2. MAKE THE LEVEL OF PENSION CREDIT THE BASIC STATE PENSION
3. RESTORE THE EARNINGS LINK

That the Pensions Credit is earnings linked and the State Pension is to retain its prices link will mean that it is only a matter of time before the only state help available in retirement is means tested.  There was a 37% erosion of a prices linked pension against earnings between 1981 and 2000, figures Lloyds TSB.

In 1981, the basic State Pension, without means tested add-on, was 24% of the then national earnings.  When the Pension Credit was introduced it was 24% of the National Average Earnings.  In a recent survey of 2656 people, 90% said that older people should have an adequate income, without having to apply for means tested benefit.  This was the view of 96% of the delegates at Age Concern Hampshire's 2005 Conference.

95.5% of the delegates at Age Concern Hampshire's 2003 "Worthy Of Work and pensions" Conference thought the earnings link should be restored to the State Pension and 73.9% of delegates at our 2005 Conference on "Income in Retirement".

Sir Patrick Moore is interviewed by Meridian Television at the 2002 Annual Conference on what it might be like to be old in 2020