[Margaret Pilkington]

Bus passes aren't means tested...and as far as I am aware neither will the opportunity to swim be means tested.....it will be available on the basis of age at first, and then the whole population will get the free swim...that is if they can find a pool to swim in.

A lot of pensioners would be better off if Gordon Brown had not made a huge raid on their pensions......and then had the audacity to double the basic rate of tax.
I think I said in an earlier post that, of course, the best means to make sure the older people got a pension that allows them to live rather than exist......I really can't see it happening in my lifetime......and these concessions that we are handed are a means to shut us up...and perhaps to make us feel grateful.....where is the dignity in that.
No, there isn't any...and that is what I meant when I said that being poor takes away your right to dignity.