British 1.5m-strong pensioner body plans demo

 

 
PressTV
Sat Apr 7, 2012
 

Britain’s largest pensioners’ representative body, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) says it will hold a demonstration on April 19 to protest the proposed freeze on age-related allowances.

The body, made up of some 1,000 smaller institutions which represent 1.5 million pensioners, said the rally is timed to coincide with the parliamentary debate on the controversial changes, which amount to ‘bailing out the rich’ by squeezing the lowest-paid classes.

NPC’s general secretary Dot Gibson said the proposed freeze on age-related tax allowances, introduced simultaneously with five-percent income tax cuts for the top earners, has outraged pensioners.

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