More than 3,300 pensioners in Portsmouth are not claiming up to £2,000 Pension Credit each year, reports Citizen Advice Portsmouth, and receipt of the Credit qualifies eligible pensioners for a free TV licence as well. [… read more ]
With the General Election and more recently the offer of apprenticeships from a government minister, the Solent WASPI campaign against women’s state pension inequality has had a lot to deal with. Shelagh Simmons and Carolyne [… read more ]
Mark Wright speaks to Labour candidate for Portsmouth South Stephen Morgan about the urgent need to fight the Tory cuts in Portsmouth, his enthusiasm for Labour’s radical manifesto and the necessity for all of us [… read more ]
Pensions is a key issue in the forthcoming General Election. The Solent branch of the Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaign is pressing for fair transitional arrangements for women born in the 1950s who have been hit by [… read more ]
S&C regular and pensions campaigner Shelagh Simmons highlights one in a series of failures of local democracy, following her experience at last week’s Full Council meeting. Additional reporting by Sarah Cheverton. The Solent Combined Authority [… read more ]
In this poignant thinkpiece Shelagh Simmons looks at the impact of austerity on older people in our community and celebrates past generations of local activists. In the last edition of Star & Crescent, Phoebe Corbett-Stenson [… read more ]
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