Labour have seven policies which will be released on
the new pledge card. The party says the polices will
“restore dignity and support” for older people living
in Britain.
Labour’s ‘Pensioners Pledge Card’ will
include plans to:
- Introduce free personal care and invest £10.8
billion in social care provision
- Keep the free bus pass for older people
- Restore 3,000 bus routes that have been cut under
the Tories and give councils the powers to regulate
services again
- Stop the Tories taking free TV licences from
over-75s
- Compensate the nearly four million women that lost
out unfairly when the change in the
state pension age was changed
without fair notice
- Invest in Warm Homes for All with insulation for
every home
- End the injustice of the state skimming 50% off the
mineworkers’ pensions schemes
The Conservatives have cut £8 billion from social care
since 2010 – and have not allocated one penny extra to
social care in their manifesto. According to Age UK,
1.5 million older people are not getting the care they
need.
, Labour’s Shadow
Chancellor, said:
“Labour’s new pledge card sets out our offer to restore
dignity and proper support for older people after being
abandoned by the Conservatives.
“Older people have had their pensions
threatened under the Tories and nearly four million
women born in the 1950s had their pensions
robbed.
“The scandalous state of the care system is perhaps the
biggest crisis facing our country. Labour will build a
new National Care Service with free care for those who
need it at the heart.”
