ESRI: Those who live alone are at greater risk of falling below the poverty line when they retire
Researchers examined whether soon-to-be pensioners will have adequate income in retirement.
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Researchers examined whether soon-to-be pensioners will have adequate income in retirement.
They sent me to a workshop where I had to say I was interested in jobs, writes Sue Redmond, a retired health worker.
“Multi-person households” that include pensioners will not receive the €10 weekly discount.
The death is not being treated as suspicious.
Free passports for pensioners were done away with under austerity measures, but there are calls now to bring it back.
Minister Regina Doherty said it’s important to stay in contact with family and friends as we get older.
Tens of thousands of people are losing out on receiving a full State pension due to rules that were introduced in 2012.
“We are working towards increasing the pension in the next budget,” Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said.
The Conservative Party wants the payment to be means-tested in other parts of the UK.
Connors told the couple he “had mates waiting outside” and said he would set the apartment on fire.
Fianna Fáil wants a €5 increase for pensioners in the next Budget.
Age Action is calling for increases to the State pension and the living alone allowance.
The bonus is paid to long-term welfare claimants such as jobseekers, pensioners, carers, lone-parents and those with a disability.
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This is just one example of elder abuse in Ireland.
Jose Mourinho’s men are now two points clear at the top of the table after a 2-0 win over Newcastle at Stamford Bridge.
The Tánaiste is in a giving mood and says the partial restoration of the bonus this year is “a start”.
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Age Action says it would welcome the return of the Christmas Bonus in next week’s Budget.
Martin and Violet Coyne face homelessness after alternative accommodation falls through.
The community have come together to try and put an end to the attacks on the elderly.
Joan Burton says that the Government hopes that uses of the new law will be a “rare event”.
Budget 2014 hit the most vulnerable elements of society – not the young, the sick, the old, or pregnant alone. We need to show intergenerational solidarity and stand together against this injustice, writes Peter Kavanagh.
Everyone’s talking about the pensioners’ protest, a little girl taken from a Roma family in Dublin and the NSA spying on the French.
One worries that without the telephone allowance her emergency alarm will be cut off. Another wishes he had never moved back to Ireland.
The crowd at Leinster House was predominantly made up of elderly people who oppose cuts to medical cards for over 70s and other measures announced in last week’s Budget.
The Minister’s been speaking to reporters on his way into the final Cabinet meeting ahead of Budget 2014.
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A study by Social Justice Ireland was launched earlier today.
With the number of older people in consistent poverty doubling over just one year, pensioner Gordon* explains what daily life is like for him – and how he fears for the future.
Around 20 per cent of elderly people receive hospital care every year after a fall.
Free bus travel, free television licences, heating bill payments – one Conservative minister in Britain has suggested rich pensioners may not need them all.
Nearly 100 million cigarettes, a million litres of fuel and nearly €50 million of drugs were seized by Revenue last year.
However Minister of State Alex White said that medical card coverage of the over 70s population stands at 97 per cent.
“The most disappointing thing is that we did not score,” opined Chelsea stopper Petr Cech.
The Chelsea captain is upset at the news that his long-time team-mate looks set to leave the London club.
The Spaniard also revealed that the Demba Ba transfer has yet to be officially confirmed.
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