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Guides councils in preparing planning policies on housing for older and disabled people.
If you're over 80 you can get your State Pension topped up to £101.55 a week in 2024 to 2025 - for men born before 6 April 1951 and women born before 6 April 1953
The over 80 pension is a State Pension for people aged 80 or over. To be…
What you get depends on how much basic State Pension you get, if any. If…
You cannot get the over 80 pension if you reached State Pension age on or…
You can get a claim form from either: your local Jobcentre Plus the…
Effect on other benefits The over 80 pension counts as taxable income, so…
Some older people can get free travel on local buses - contact your council to check your eligibility and apply for a bus pass
Sets out the government's quality standards for health and social care services for older people.
Find out about which goods and services for disabled people and people aged 60 or over that you should apply zero or reduced rate VAT.
Contact your council to find out whether they offer a garden maintenance service for elderly or disabled council tenants
Winter Fuel Payment helps older people with their heating bills - claim form, how much you get, eligibility
Financial help if you're disabled - benefits, housing costs, council tax, vehicle tax exemption, TV Licence, motability schemes, VAT relief
Age-related tax allowance, calculating tax if you carry on working, National Insurance payments
Help with heating, housing and other living costs. Includes Universal Credit.
Number of senior citizens arrested in the Civil Nuclear Constabulary's region.
We remind healthcare professionals that elderly patients are at an increased risk of adverse neurological and cardiac effects when being treated with haloperidol for delirium. The lowest possible dose of haloperidol should be used for the shortest possible time, and...
Senior citizens and their carers are warned to be on the alert against scams, following the forced winding up of another company that had targeted the elderly.
Employment Tribunal decision.
Government changes legislation to protect free bus travel scheme.
Prime Minister's Big Society Awards recognise Police volunteers in Bristol after 50% drop in "distraction burglaries".
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
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