Labour warns that the Conservative party’s long-term ambition to scrap National Insurance contributions means 'people’s pensions are on the line'
Labour warns that the Conservative party’s long-term ambition to scrap National Insurance contributions means 'people’s pensions are on the line'
Meanwhile benefit income, mainly the state pension, accounts for 56 per cent of income in single pensioner households, compared to 37 per cent among pensioner couples, according to the party’s analysis. It makes pensioners a crucial target for Labour as the party ramps up campaigning ahead of the general election, and with
It has also demanded answers over whether the state pension age will be hiked to fund the £46bn “black hole”, and whether the state pension will be means-tested going forwards.: “Older people have paid a heavy price for the economic chaos inflicted by the Tories and another five years of the Conservatives will only risk more of the same.
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