Susan Burton: ‘I would encourage any mother who is getting a low pension to check she is not missing out’
The Government is being urged to end its ‘radio silence’ and act now to fix blunders causing mums to lose out on large sums in state pension.
Susan Burton, pictured right, had her payments hiked £55 a week to £185 and received £2,330 after being tipped off by a campaign run by former Pensions Minister Steve Webb.
If the mistake
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced changes to income tax, inheritance tax, and energy bill support among other measures in today’s Autumn Statement.
At a glance income tax personal allowance, reduced higher rate threshold, main national insurance thresholds and the inheritance tax thresholds have all been frozen by an additional two years, until April 2028.
This move catches millions more in higher tax brackets and will raise billions for the government’s money pot.
In addition the Chancellor announced the state pension
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt: Painful financial measures are pending next Thursday
Pension savers and pensioners fear a raid under cash-raising measures the Government is rumoured to be considering in its latest financial plan.
A more miserly pension tax relief system will make it harder for working people to build a decent retirement pot.
And those who paid towards a state pension all their working life are incensed over the possibility of a second triple lock betrayal.
However, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will
PARIS — When EU leaders gather to hash out a response to the energy crisis this week, they may well be asking which Emmanuel Macron is going to show up. Will it be the protectionist champion of French interests they know so well? Or will it be the swashbuckling reformer — hellbent on ripping up the sacred rulebook and liberalizing the French economy — as he is known at home?
Since sweeping into office in 2017, the French president has
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Vladimir Putin has gone nuclear.
Admittedly, things have not been going well. Kyiv’s counter-offensive has retaken thousands of kilometers of Russian-held territory in eastern Ukraine; Moscow’s troops have fled the front lines; dissent from previously loyal pundits has increased; and criticism (oblique though it may be) has even emanated from his pals in Beijing and New Delhi.
Faced with the prospect of a humiliating climb-down, the Russian president on Wednesday sought to escalate the war by announcing a partial mobilization
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LONDON — It’s not just the Cabinet that’s had a clear-out now that Liz Truss is running Britain.
A phalanx of fresh faces have arrived in No. 10 Downing Street to strategize for and advise the new prime minister as she seeks to navigate her way through a turbulent winter and toward a difficult-looking 2024 general election. Only a small handful of Boris Johnson-era aides have survived the cull.
“She clearly prizes loyalty
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LONDON — It was in the unlikely surrounds of Port Vale Football Club, a small town and perpetually lower-league team in central England, that the course of British political history was set.
In a rented boardroom overlooking the 15,000-capacity Vale Park pitch, Liz Truss was being put through her paces. Around the table were two of her most trusted aides, taking turns to roleplay the one man standing in her path to 10
LONDON — Liz Truss has not published her plan for government, but this is the closest thing to it.
Over nearly eight long weeks of hustings, interviews, articles and debates, the two contenders for the Tory leadership have made their respective cases for why they should succeed Boris Johnson as U.K. prime minister. Among all the campaign jibes and blue-on-blue attacks have been scores of pledges and promises for how to deal with the urgent problems facing the country.
The
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PARIS — Call them Emmanuel Macron’s praetorian guard.
As the French president prepares to seek reelection in April, he has turned to a select group of close advisers to help him in the battles ahead.
While Macron likes to hold court and seek input from a wide variety of sources, when it comes to strategic decisions, he relies on a small number of longtime loyalists, eschewing professional
