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Waiting for Gordon — [review of The Turner Commission's proposals]
Author(s)	Mark Ivory
Journal title	Community Care, no 1605, 12 January 2006
Pages	pp 30-31
Keywords	Social security benefits ; Pensions ; Poor elderly ; Means testing ; Social policy.
Annotation	The Turner Commission's proposals have re-ignited the debate about how best to tackle pensioner poverty, the means test and the impact of inequality. This article notes that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, will not be pleased that the Commission is against expanding the Pension Credit means test, and instead favours state pension increases linked to earnings. Adair Turner's report makes clear the need to end health inequalities, but differences in life expectancy between deprived and wealthy areas will lead to further disparities if the state pension age (SPA) is raised to 67. This article also comments that although the report is helpful to carers who are out of work, it does not say anything about carers who want to work part-time. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-060201202 A
Classmark	JH: JJ: F:W6: JF4C: TM2 *
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