The cost of living is soaring for millions of household across the UK with the likes of filling up the car with fuel and shopping bills being just some of the essentials to have increased in price.
Because of the strain, there are ways of getting financial help regardless of your age, however now pensioners are calling for guaranteed help.
It comes as Iceland are already offering pensioners help by handing out a voucher for the sum of £30 which can be spent on food and "other essentials".
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The voucher is part of a 'Summer Cheer' campaign which will run 296 stores nationwide after the frozen goods company partnered with pensions insurance specialist, Rothesay, to roll out £1m worth of support to pensioners living in poverty.
According to the Mirror, pensioners are seeking a guaranteed minimum £200-a-week payout amid rising bills. The Silver Voices group, which spearheaded the fight for over-75s’ free TV licences, are asking the Government to set a new floor for the amount OAPs receive as households are engulfed by soaring energy costs, runaway inflation and food price hikes.
Now a petition launched on the Government website is asking for a £200-a-week “minimum pension guarantee” to be set for "all state pensioners, irrespective of gender, marital status or contribution record, to remove anomalies in the pension system, including the growing discrepancy between the old and new state pensions".
The petition, which has been signed by almost 14,000 people, claims that “in September 2020 only 6% of state pensioners received the top rate of the new state pension”.
It adds: “The UK provides the worst state pension in the developed world, which is insufficient for life’s essentials, particularly with surging energy and food prices. After a lifetime of tax and national insurance contributions, older people deserve a minimum income of £200 per week without recourse to the benefits system.”
As the petition has already crossed the threshold of 10,000 signatures to trigger a Government response, they should be due to respond within the next six days.
Silver Voices director Dennis Reed exclusively told the Mirror : “The steps taken so far to support millions of struggling pensioners are minimal in the context of the cost of living catastrophe approaching this autumn.”
A Department of Work and Pensions spokeswoman added: “This year we will spend over £110 billion on the state pension.
“The full yearly amount of the basic state pension is over £2,300 higher than in 2010 and the vast majority of people in receipt of it also get additional income from either an occupational/private pension, if they were contracted out, or the additional state pension – and many get a combination of the two.”
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