1. La Paradoja de la Pobreza Generacional.
Se destaca el éxito histórico en la reducción de la pobreza de los pensionistas, contrastándolo con las altas y crecientes tasas de pobreza infantil y de adultos en edad de trabajar, lo que genera un debate sobre la priorización de los recursos.
- Pensioner poverty levels are now roughly half that of children in the u.k., the collapse of pensioner poverty has been one of our few great successes in our society.
- You do understand that pensioner poverty rates are lower than both child and working age adult rates right?
- The starkest statistic is that if you pick a pensioner and a child at random in the uk it is more likely the child is living in poverty.
- Poverty is generationally skewed towards younger people in the uk.
2. La Insuficiencia de la Pensión Estatal y el Triple Lock.
La Pensión Estatal del Reino Unido es criticada por ser una de las más bajas de los países desarrollados (G7/OECD), lo que empuja a muchos a la pobreza. El mecanismo del 'Triple Lock' es visto como una medida costosa que beneficia a un grupo ya más rico.
- British state pensions are the lowest in the g7 nations, with 2 million pensioners subsisting in poverty.
- The current state pension isnt enough to live on as it is, cutting future increases will push more pensioners into poverty.
- The triple lock has already achieved its purpose by lifting pensioners out of poverty, yet it now creates costs that fall overwhelmingly on people who are already struggling to build any financial security of their own.
- The state pension which has seen increases beyond inflation and wage growth. If they were hoping this is a compromise, it absolutely isnt.
3. El Debate sobre el Winter Fuel Payment (WFP) y la Focalización.
La decisión de modificar o eliminar el WFP generó una fuerte reacción, ya que se temía que empujara a miles de pensionistas a la pobreza de combustible. Se argumenta que el beneficio debería ser focalizado (means-tested) para ayudar solo a los más necesitados, en lugar de ser universal.
- Labours own impact assessment showed that 50,00 pensioners a year would be pushed into poverty because of cuts to the wfa as the means tested threshold is too low shame on labour for doubling down on this.
- Winterfuelpayments pretty mad that pensioners who own their homes and have an income of 34,99 will qualify for payments now.
- I would have happily accepted the winter fuel money. However, we get by! what really bugs me is the ever increasing numbers of children in poverty.
- The WFA cut gave a lot of pensioners the food fuel choice. 12k pa you get no help. State created poverty.
4. El Riesgo de Pobreza en la Jubilación para Futuras Generaciones.
Se advierte sobre una "tsunami" de pobreza futura, impulsada por el aumento de la edad de jubilación, la falta de ahorro en pensiones privadas y, crucialmente, la disminución de la propiedad de vivienda entre las cohortes más jóvenes, lo que las dejará vulnerables a los altos costos de alquiler en la vejez.
- Britain is facing a tsunami of pensioner poverty, says kendall.
- The stat that concerns me most is that the poorest 20 of current pensioners by income still have home ownership rates of 75-80. Theres simply 0 chance of that being repeated when my lot get there.
- Older renters are the invisible, unheard poor.
- Raising the state pension age could push people further into worse health and poverty.