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The unwanted generation
— a response by the National Pensioners Convention to the Government's Green Paper "A new contract for welfare: partnership in pensions" | | Corporate Author | National Pensioners Convention - NPC |
| Publisher | National Pensioners Convention, London, 1999 |
| Pages | 26 pp (with press release) |
| Source | National Pensioners Convention, 47 Chalton Street, London NW1 1HY. |
| Keywords | Pensions ; Supplementary pensions ; Retired persons ; Pressure groups ; Comments or Evidence submitted. |
| Annotation | In its response to "A new contract for welfare: partnership in pensions" (Cm 4179), the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) identifies the Green Paper's central defect as its failure to recognise the crucial importance of the basic pension. For today's pensioners, raising the basic pension and restoring the earnings link are the only ways of providing anything approaching a decent minimum income. Also omitted is any reference to the needs of older pensioners, except in the context of income support rates. The NPC states that there is little point in devising new and complicated second pensions while allowing the basic pension to fade into insignificance. In addition, the main positive features of SERPS (the State Earnings Related Pensions Scheme) are ignored. Instead, the terms for contracting out in favour of private schemes will be at the expense of low-paid workers remaining in the state scheme. The NPC calls on the Government to return to the principles of social insurance, and for a task force to be set up to review and report on ways of providing adequate incomes for those now over pension age with regard to their future needs and rights. The press release gives a summary of the report's content. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990514003 B |
| Classmark | JJ: JJH: BB6: PME: 6PM |
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