, degenerating spinal discs, worn joints in his knees, ankles and hips and arthritis.
“I worked my whole life and have never been in this situation before as I always had money coming in. But now, I am reliant on the state pension. I have a paid pension from my work with the AA, but now it’s not worth very much. The fuel bills have gone up so much, my pension just isn’t enough. I’m lucky that my brother is still working and we are just about keeping our heads slightly above the water. If he wasn’t working, we’d be completely screwed.
One in five say they are spending 35 to 40 per cent of their pensions on energy bills, while 22 per cent say they are spending between 25 and 30 per cent of their pension on fuel bills. “We are an all-electric house and if I’d seen this coming, we would have bought something smaller,” she says. “But I wanted to have a nice house after I had worked all my life.
“The Government needs to listen to the pensioners who are speaking out and the thousands of workers standing alongside them.”by the end of the 2030s, reports this week have claimed, with fears it will lead to people working longer and being subjected to poverty.
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