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SilverNet dismisses Osborne’s £5 a week increase in state pension

Apr 12, 2012

The following article was written by Senior Reporter Sukran Sahin and was published in the Barking and Dagenham Post on Wednesday 28th March. You can view the original piece here: www.bdpost.co.uk/home/e-edition

A group of pensioners has condemned the government’s plan to freeze tax allowances, with one protesting that a £5 rise a week in state pensions would only buy them “two packets of fish fingers”.

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Pensioners call tax changes ‘an attack on older people’

Apr 12, 2012

The following article was written by Senior Reporter Sukran Sahin, and published by the Barking and Dagenham Post on Wednesday 28th March. You can view the original piece here:
www.bdpost.co.uk/home/e-edition

Sukran Sahin reports on how the latest Budget will impact on local people:

“Unfair” was the verdict of a group of Barking and Dagenham pensioners on new rules in the Budget which will see money taken away from those who have worked and paid into the system for decades.

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MP deplores cut in parents’ incomes

Apr 12, 2012

The following article was written by Senior Reporter Sukran Sahin, and was published by the Barking and Dagenham Post on Wednesday 28th March. The original piece can be found here: www.bdpost.co.uk/home/e-edition

Dagenham and Rainham MP Jon Cruddas has made a scathing attack on new rules in the Budget that will slash £2.6billion from parents’ incomes by making it harder to qualify for working tax credits.