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  1. Age UK Parliamentary Briefing - Cost of Living, October 2023.pdf

    Briefing Cost of living October 2023 Overview After two years of weathering sky-high price rises on everything from food to fuel, it’s clear that for millions of older people, the cost of living crisis is ... equivalent to 4.2 million older people have recently cut back on food or groceries due to the cost of living crisis. Worryingly our research shows that the median pensioner household is spending around £50

  2. Consultation response to modernising support for independent living, DWP, June 2024.pdf

    Consultation response Modernising support for independent living: the health and disability green paper Department for Work and Pensions June 2024 Contact: policy@ageuk.org.uk All rights reserved ... consultation paper refers to 2.6 million people of working age being in receipt of PIP and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and states that it ‘will focus on the main non-means tested benefit paid to adults

  3. Consultation Response House of Lords Select Comittee, digital exclusion and cost of living, March 2023.pdf

    evidence to the Communications and Digital Committee’s inquiry into digital exclusion and the cost of living March 2023 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it ... Lords Communications and Digital Committee launched an inquiry to look at how the rising cost of living will affect digital exclusion and to identify solutions around how the issue can be tackled. Key

  4. Policy Briefing - Living in a digital world after Covid-19 the experience of older people who don’t live their lives online.pdf

    1 Briefing Paper Living in a digital world after Covid-19 – the experiences of older people who don’t live their lives online December 2021 Introduction Many people cannot imagine life without ... interested in, or just not for them. • Lack of digital skills or unable to use technology. • Lack of trust and concern about scams. Not for them Several participants talked about not being brought up with

  5. Work and Pensions Committee The Cost of living.pdf

    Age UK’s evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee’s inquiry: The Cost of Living June 2022 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational ... About this consultation The Work and Pensions Committee is carrying out an inquiry on the cost of living and is seeking evidence on how the Government can support people on Universal Credit, legacy benefits

  6. Cost of living parliamentary briefing - May 2022.pdf

    Cost of living parliamentary briefing May 2022 Background At Age UK, we are concerned about how the rising cost of living is affecting older people on low and modest incomes. Prices of everyday items ... not protected by Ofgem's price cap (e.g. oil, smokeless fuel and bottled gas). The rising cost of living Higher prices have resulted in older households on the lowest incomes often being unable to cover

  7. FS72 LP Advance decisions advance statements and living wills.pdf

    Page 1 of 22 Factsheet 72 Advance decisions, advance statements and living wills April 2026 About this factsheet There are things you can do to make sure others know which medical treatments you would ... yourself. Preparing an advance decision to refuse treatment (often called an advance decision or a ‘living will’) and an advance statement are two things you can do. This factsheet explains what they are

  8. Living on a low income in later life - Oct 11 (PDF)

    Living on a low income in later life Katherine Hill Liz Sutton Donald Hirsch Centre for Research in Social Policy Loughborough University October 2011 Copyright © Age UK 2011 ISBN 978-0-9568731-2-5 The ... in later life Contents Acknowledgements 3 Key findings 4 Getting by in later life: an overview of living on a low income 6 Introduction 14 Report structure 14 Policy context and background 14 Research aims

  9. Age UK Cost of Living Response Fund final report.docx

    Towards the end of 2021, Age UK polled older people to better understand the impact that the cost of living crisis would have on them, with 23% of the most disadvantaged older people telling us they felt the ... being able to pay for essential items and household bills and as a result being pushed into debt, living in cold houses, eating less and cutting back on social activities with friends and family to survive

  10. FS87 Personal Independence Payment and Disability Living Allowance.pdf

    Page 1 of 30 Factsheet 87 Personal Independence Payment and Disability Living Allowance April 2026 About this factsheet This factsheet gives information about Personal Independence Payment (PIP), a ... claim for PIP if you are under State Pension age. The factsheet also has information about Disability Living Allowance (DLA) which is being replaced by PIP for some people. We cover the process for reassessing

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