DWP admits up to 100,000 may fall into poverty due to winter fuel payment cuts
The NPC is shocked by the government’s admission that winter fuel payment cuts could force an extra 100,000 older people in England and...
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2 days ago2 min read
Chancellor must change tack on Winter fuel payments as DWP struggle with claims
The NPC fears the Department of Work and Pension’s struggles to process the surge in pension credit applications is putting the UK’s...
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National Pensioners Convention
Nov 63 min read
NPC supports Unite’s threat to take legal action over the Winter Fuel Payment cuts
The NPC fully supports Unite’s decision to investigate legal action over the government’s decision to end universal Winter fuel payments...
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National Pensioners Convention
Oct 13 min read
UK marks International Older Persons Day with record rise in their energy bills
Older people will bear the brunt of the energy price rise which happens today 1st October – coincidentally the UN International Day of...
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National Pensioners Convention
Sep 273 min read
MPs invited to hear why so many fear deadly winter fuel payment cuts
The NPC is bringing together major UK campaigners and charities to tell MPs why cutting universal winter fuel payments will be a death...
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National Pensioners Convention
Sep 151 min read
Winter Fuel Payment campaigner pack
Age UK has created a Winter Fuel Payment campaigner pack. It has lots of great information including Why we’re campaigning What you can...
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National Pensioners Convention
Sep 141 min read
Lobby of Parliament
The UK’s largest campaign organisation, run for and by older people, is urging members to invite their MPs to attend our planned Lobby of...
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National Pensioners Convention
Sep 115 min read
NPC Statement on Parliament’s Vote to Cut Universal Winter Fuel Payments
The NPC pledges to continue pressing the government for measures to help older people afford their energy bills - despite Parliament’s...
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National Pensioners Convention
Sep 51 min read
Early Day Motion 115
Neil Duncan-Jordan MP for Poole has tabled an Early Day Motion on the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024. We would...
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National Pensioners Convention
Aug 233 min read
New rise in price cap on energy bills will be the final straw for older and vulnerable this winter
News that the average energy bill will rise by £149 from October is another massive blow for older people still reeling from cuts to the...
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National Pensioners Convention
Aug 25 min read
NPC General Secretary plea to Chancellor to halt ‘ill-advised’ Winter Fuel Payments means-test plan
The General Secretary of the National Pensioners’ Convention has written personally to Chancellor Rachel Reeves to reconsider her shock...
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National Pensioners Convention
Aug 13 min read
NPC calls on all members to write to their MPs in protest at axing of universal Winter Fuel Payments
The National Pensioner’s Convention urges each of our members to write and ask their MPs to press the government to stop universal Winter...
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National Pensioners Convention
Jul 291 min read
Chancellor urged to reverse devastating decision to axe winter fuel payments for millions
The National Pensioners’ Convention is calling on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to reconsider her shock decision to end ‘universal’ winter...
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National Pensioners Convention
Jul 52 min read
Urgent call for new government to deliver new strategy for UK’s ageing population
The National Pensioners’ Convention is calling on our newly elected government to urgently prioritise a strategy for the UK’s rapidly...
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National Pensioners Convention
Jun 265 min read
Two Thirds Of Public Demand Automatic Return Of Credit
More than two thirds of bill payers – 68% - are calling on energy suppliers to automatically return any credit in their account after...
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National Pensioners Convention
Jun 52 min read
Big Energy Credit Claim Back
More than 20,000 people have signed up for the Big Energy Credit Claim Back just two weeks after it was launched by UK campaign groups...
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National Pensioners Convention
May 224 min read
Bill payers could claim back £3 billion from energy companies in mass protest
UK householders are being urged to join a mass action to claim back billions of pounds in unused credit held by the nation’s energy...
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National Pensioners Convention
Mar 73 min read
Spring Budget is more bad news for both today’s and tomorrow’s retirees
The National Pensioner’s Convention warns that the Spring Budget spells yet more disastrous news for today’s and more worryingly...
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National Pensioners Convention
Mar 22 min read
One Death Is One Too Many
NPC members will rally at 12noon in College Green, opposite Parliament in London on Budget Day next Wednesday, 6th March, along with Fuel...
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National Pensioners Convention
Mar 12 min read
Winter Deaths 06.03.24
National Pensioners’ Convention members will join a major Cold Homes Kill protest across from Parliament as the Chancellor stands to...
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National Pensioners Convention
Feb 291 min read
Housing Matters 2
The second edition of Housing Working Party's newsletter is out now. With great articles on: Mouldy homes Housing is the priority Letters...
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National Pensioners Convention
Feb 285 min read
Budget Day rally will call on Chancellor to end rampant fuel poverty
The National Pensioners’ Convention says Ofgem’s lower price cap on energy bills from 1st April is ‘too little too late’ to help the...
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National Pensioners Convention
Feb 162 min read
Westminster rally will demand Chancellor acts to end Cold Home Winter Deaths
National Pensioners’ Convention members will join a major Cold Homes Kill protest across from Parliament as the Chancellor stands to...
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National Pensioners Convention
Jan 173 min read
4,950 excess winter deaths caused by cold homes last winter
Following publication of new official data, the End Fuel Poverty Coalition has estimated that 4,950 excess winter deaths in the UK were...
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National Pensioners Convention
Jan 82 min read
NPC calls for urgent end of force-fitting PPMs
The National Pensioners Convention is calling for an urgent end to the force-fitting of Prepayment Meters after news that energy firms...
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National Pensioners Convention
Nov 16, 20232 min read
NPC calls for vulnerable to be protected as Ofgem announces review of energy Standing Charges
The NPC applauds Ofgem’s decision to review Standing Charges applied to people’s energy bills to cover the cost of connecting to a...
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National Pensioners Convention
Oct 23, 20233 min read
Warning as Warrants issued to force-fit PrePayment Meters
The National Pensioners’ Convention has issued a warning after news that a court has granted the first warrants in months to allow the...
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National Pensioners Convention
Sep 13, 20231 min read
What must be done to help older renters?
An important new report by Independent Age says the current private rented sector in England is not fit for the growing number of older...
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National Pensioners Convention
Aug 25, 20233 min read
OFGEM Energy Price Cap Announced
Energy regulator OFGEM’s new price cap announced today* does not help the millions of older and vulnerable people still struggling to pay...
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National Pensioners Convention
Aug 24, 20231 min read
Housing Matters 1
The first edition of Housing Working Party's newsletter is out now. With great articles on: Leasehold reform, Retrofitting, Private...
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