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  1. Ambitions for later life programme

    Ambitions of Later Life programme provides information and advice to people generally above State Pension age. Read more now from Age UK.

  2. Protecting the Triple Lock and stopping cuts to benefits

    Our campaigning on the State Pension triple lock is aimed at getting the Government to keep its pledge to honour it. Find out more today.

  3. Benefits and entitlements

    Information and advice from Age UK on claiming benefits and entitlements, including pension credit, attendance allowance, council tax benefit and many more.

  4. 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.

  5. 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 ... backgrounds, and rates of poor health among Black Caribbean men and women are equivalent to the rates of poor health among White men and women aged 10 years older. Black Caribbean older people living in England

  6. 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

  7. All-Party Parliamentary Group

    improved. Older Women’s Health March 2025 This meeting featured a presentation from Age UK’s research team on the health-related findings from Age UK’s report, ‘Older Women in the UK: ... UK: Building a picture of older women’s lives’. This presentation included findings on the different challenges faced by older women in the UK across areas such as health outcomes, disability

  8. Benefits for mixed age couples

    The way benefits are awarded to mixed age couples has changed. Find out if this affects you and what you should do if it does.

  9. Black History Month 2023

    Dadzie, women who have been at the forefront of Black feminist and community activism, co-founding organisation’s such as Brixton Black Women’s Group and OWAAD (Organisation of Women of African ... challenges of later life. More likely to be in low paid work, to retire later without an enhanced pension or financial assets, to face health inequities and to have unsafe and insecure housing. The legacy

  10. Shining a spotlight on domestic abuse in older people

    ageist societal narratives that often represent victims and survivors of domestic abuse as younger women, often with children, means that for too long older people have rarely been considered as victims ... of domestic abuse are women, and a third are men. Shockingly, almost half (47%) of victims of adult family homicides are aged 50 and over, and a fifth (21%) are 65 and over. Women are at highest risk from

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