TORY GOVERNMENT'S 'DARK AGE' AUSTERITY POLICIES ARE BADLY HURTING BRITISH WOMEN.
Published Aug 02, 2017
A new study by the Institute of Fiscal Studies proves that UKIP were
right to 'stand alone' in resisting delays to state pension for
women.
Andrew Charalambous, UKIP's Work and Pensions Spokesman claimed "The
effect of cutting £74 a week from household benefits has been to make older
women poorer and to significantly increase the likelihood British pensioners
will find themselves trapped in poverty. We cannot stand by while so many
British pensioners, who worked hard to build the British economy, will have to
choose again in a few months time between heating and
eating".
The IFS has demonstrated that absolute poverty rates fir British women
aged between 60 and 62 had soared from 15 to 21%. Reforms to state pension are
saving the Treasury £4.2bn a year but leaving a million more women with £50 a
week less in their purse.
Charalambous went on to say "Tory blind austerity has failed Britain. 7.6
million women will lose nearly £10,000 each yet public sector debt is still
standing tall at £1.75trn. UKIP appear to be the only party fighting to stop our
country becoming a nation where only the very wealthy can afford to
retire."
