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  1. Our benefits package

    Age UK staff enjoy a wide range of benefits, including a competitive pension, a Bupa cash plan, discounts at selected retailers, and childcare vouchers. Read below for full details.

  2. Winter Fuel Payment

    annual payment to help you with heating costs during the colder months. You must have reached State Pension age. Your Winter Fuel Payment will be recovered through the tax system if your taxable income is ... are over State Pension age, you could receive £200 towards your bills. If you or your partner are over 80, you could receive £300 .  If you or your partner receive Pension Credit, Universal

  3. Black History Month 2022

    published by the Department for Work and Pensions tell us that 30% of Black pensioners are living in poverty, almost double the percentage of White pensioners living in poverty (16%). And researchers from ... independent researchers to interview 500 older people from the UK’s ethnic minority populations, 200 of whom were Black. We asked about the issues that Age UK supports older people with – including

  4. Keeping up with changes to the benefit system

    In 2024, the new Government changed the Winter Fuel Payment rules so that only people receiving Pension Credit or another means-tested benefit would qualify for it. The decision was met with widespread ... households in England and Wales that include someone over State Pension age will automatically receive a Winter Fuel Payment of £200 or £300 this winter. It’s important to note that if

  5. Government help for energy bills

    account with a participating electricity supplier and receive the Guarantee Credit part of Pension Credit, or if you're in receipt of another means tested benefit. Find out more about the Warm ... £200 or £300 to help households with heating costs during the colder winter months. From winter 2025/26, the Winter Fuel Payment will be restored to all people over  State Pension  age

  6. Supporting older people to stay well this winter

    support they’re entitled to – like the Winter Fuel Payment . Designed to help with pensioners cover the costs of heating bills during the colder months, the Winter Fuel Payment has been through ... in England and Wales that include someone who has reached State Pension age will automatically receive a Winter Fuel Payment of £200 or £300 this winter. How important are vaccines? Getting

  7. Financial and legal tips before remarrying

    live with someone as a couple, any means-tested benefits you receive, such as Universal Credit , Pension Credit , Housing Benefit  or Council Tax Support , may be affected. This is because your partner’s ... important to note that if you form a couple with a new partner and only one of you is over state pension age, you become a new 'mixed-age couple'. This means that your existing benefits may end and you

  8. Poverty and low income among Black older people

    in later life? asks Age UK Policy Manager Sally West. And what can be done? More than 2 million pensioners (18%) live in poverty in the UK. These headline figures are worrying enough, but for older people ... people from Black ethnic groups the risk of poverty is nearly twice as high as for White pensioners. Why are people from Black and other minority ethnic groups at greater risk of lower income and poverty

  9. Key findings from our Ageing While Black report

    people from White backgrounds. For example, 31% of pensioners from Black backgrounds are living in poverty in comparison with 16% of White pensioners; Black Caribbean older households are more likely to ... life, and a reduced pension pot. Pension inequality is a particular issue – only 37% of Black pensioners receive an occupational pension in comparison to 64% of White pensioners. This gap widens for

  10. Why is the Winter Fuel Payment so important?

    to the Chancellor’s statement, which has removed the Winter Fuel Payment for millions of pensioners. Paul Farmer Our purpose is to ensure that older people are valued – in this case specifically ... having equal access to the Winter Fuel Payment. Protecting the Winter Fuel Payment for struggling pensioners We believe the decision to make the Winter Fuel Payment means-tested is the wrong one at the wrong

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