Yesterday, Tuesday 28th October, saw the launch of the LLA’s Budget for Later Life in the House of Commons.
At its heart, the Budget aims to ensure that no one in later life faces poverty, insecurity, or exclusion. It sets out eight key priorities: protecting the state pension and maintaining the triple lock; introducing a minimum income guarantee; closing the gender pension gap; improving opportunities for older workers; ending unfair taxation on pensions; widening access to affordable and accessible public transport; ensuring safe, secure and adaptable housing; and creating a sustainable, integrated system of health and social care.
The overarching goal is simple but powerful: to guarantee dignity, independence, and financial stability for all older people. The Budget calls on policymakers to act with foresight, address inequality, and lay the foundations for every person to live well, confidently, and securely in later life.
As CSPA General Secretary, Sally Tsoukaris said. “We were encouraged by a positive response from cross-party peers and MPs to our Later Life Ambitions’ Budget for Later Life, which emphasises the importance of addressing pensioner poverty, inequality and the challenges of an ageing population, whilst highlighting the positive contributions older adults make to society. CSPA and the other partner organisation in LLA call for urgent action to ensure a fair and sustainable future for those in later life, which will in turn benefit society at large.”
The event was the front page headline on Wednesday 29th’s Daily Express, as well as a double page article inside, read in full here. The story has also been picked up by the Daily Record in Scotland, and the front page itself has been covered by several outlets in their roundups of today’s headlines; see here for the BBC and Sky News summaries.
Sue Cook’s ‘Budget for Later Life’ opinion piece is also on the LBC website on the link here: “Older workers hold the key to rebuilding Britain’s economy.”
Later Life Ambitions
Later Life Ambitions brings together the collective voices of over a quarter of a million pensioners through the National Federation of Occupational Pensioners, the Civil Service Pensioners’ Alliance, and the National Association of Retired Police Officers Association.
We aim to encourage today’s decision makers to confront the challenges of tomorrow.
What we're calling for:
This Budget presents our plan for a fairer, more sustainable deal for older people. we urge you to stand with us and add your voice to our calls for a fair deal for living well in later life.
- Protecting the State Pension
- Reducing the tax on pensions
- Tackling the gender pension gap
- Supporting older people in the workplace
- A minimum income guarantee
- Widening access to public transport
- Making housing safe, secure, accessible and adaptable
- Supporting health and social care
