Following on from Monday’s discussion the Beeb are reporting on an IFS research study in which it is claimed that UK pensioners' incomes have risen faster than all other age groups in the last 30 years, and also claims that the over-60s are the only age group to have become better off since 2007/08.
The Beeb suggests that “the findings may fuel the debate over how much protection pensioners should be given from the government's current austerity measures”.
As yet the actual report Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2013 does not appear to be publicly available, the IFS website explains that "The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has today [13th June] published its annual statistics on the distribution of income in the UK. The latest data cover years up to and including 2011–12. Tomorrow, IFS researchers will publish a detailed report, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), on what these data tell us about living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK." The link given actually takes you to details of the Conference organised around the release of the report:-
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2013
1 comments:
Yes but we've got to give them more money every year because they are the only people grateful enough to vote for the party who gives them the most money.
I mean, sorry, because they have worked hard and saved hard, unlike today's feckless youth.
Oh hang on, if they've "saved hard", then they don't need to be given so much money, do they..?
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