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  1. Tax and benefits: what's changed?

    changes to tax and benefits rates. Here's what it means for veterans born before 1950. War pensions The rates for War Pensions and allowances have increased by 0.5% for 2021-22. Changes to benefits for veterans ... the Armed Forces before April 2005 and are no longer serving, then the War Pension Scheme will compensate for this. The rates for War Pensions and allowances have increased by 0.5% for 2021-22. Changes to

  2. Celebrating special grandparents

    Age UK top and rushing to multiple locations across the city to cheer me on. It really meant the world to me to have her there and I will never forget how special and supported she made me feel. I was ... when I was 12. She came from a big family in the Philippines – many of whom moved all over the world. Inang was such a character and loved all her family, and after she moved to the UK I got to know

  3. Philippa Forrester on wellbeing and the wild

    early part of her broadcasting career presenting much-loved TV shows like Tomorrow’s World and Robot Wars, in more recent years Philippa has focused on projects that reflect her lifelong passion for ... for the wild. It’s a love that’s taken her to some of the most remote landscapes in the world as a wildlife expert and presenter, and influenced her family’s 6-year relocation to Wyoming

  4. Celebrating The Silver Line Helpline

    to him – I used to speak to him on the phone and we’d have lovely, long chats about the war,” says Victoria. “When he died, I felt like something was missing during that time of the ... Marion, a caller to The Silver Line, on what the service means to her It's a window opening on the world... it cheers me up and makes me forget about my own problems for that amount of time. Being reassured

  5. Mother's Day

    many people who’d become refugees during her time in the Middle East just after the Second World War . That’s typical of how she is — she sees an injustice and works out what contribution ... intellectualism and bravery. Mum has so much enthusiasm. She wants to learn, is inquisitive about the world, and is learning every single day. She reads all the time and engages with contemporary life, so has

  6. Remembering the Holocaust

    the lessons of the past and create a better future. Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January) is when the world honours and remembers the 11 million people murdered in the greatest act of genocide in modern memory ... everything they knew, and accepted they would always be refugees, and always be outsiders.” After the war, her parents wrote to the Red Cross hoping to find their extended family. They found out that most

  7. Penelope Wilton on Downton Abbey: A New Era

    appearing in Operation Mincemeat, the big screen account of one of the fascinating episodes of World War II, as well as making a film version of the popular novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry ... allowed [Tony] to be himself, while elsewhere he was putting up a front as he tries to deal with the world. I’m told people found that very moving and in many respects very helpful, as it’s just

  8. Terry and Tim: a love story

    together. When Terry landed one of the British army’s most unpopular postings at the end of World War Two, Cupid may well have been pulling the strings. For not long after the corporal had been stationed

  9. Reclaiming retirement

    upside down, Age UK’s support helped him find peace of mind again. Having lived through the Second World War, 88-year-old Peter is no stranger to tough circumstances. “I remember having to dive down

  10. Our history

    2009 brings together almost 120 years of shared history of working with and for older people. World War II brought hardship to everyone in Britain, and older people were especially vulnerable. Many families

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