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
The campaigning organisation for older people in the UK
HOUSING
WORKING PARTY
Terms of Reference
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To examine, consider and advise the EC on issues relating to housing that affect older people. This should also include considering how any such improvements could be funded.
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To submit to the EC as appropriate papers, briefings etc that deal with these issues, as an aid to policy making.
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To research where necessary specific issues to advance the NPC’s understanding.
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To co-opt additional expert members (who are not part of the NPC) as appropriate.
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To brief the EC regularly on the working party’s progress.
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...
675 views
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...
841 views
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...
684 views
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...
495 views
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...
321 views
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...
1,135 views
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...
687 views
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...
1,144 views
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...
465 views
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...
241 views
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...
249 views
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...
212 views
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...
564 views
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...
292 views
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...
489 views
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...
379 views
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...
285 views
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...
239 views
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...
551 views
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...
262 views
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...
267 views
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...
247 views
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...
189 views
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...
319 views
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...
304 views
National Pensioners Convention
Jun 15, 20231 min read
Energy Bill Support Vouchers
The Energy Bills Support Scheme gave a £400 grant to households to help pay for energy bills last winter 2022/23. If you have a...
324 views
National Pensioners Convention
Feb 22, 20231 min read
NPC Statement on Pre-Payment Meter compensation
BACKGROUND - The NPC has issued a cautious welcome to the energy regulator’s statement that suppliers should start compensating customers...
191 views
National Pensioners Convention
Feb 16, 20231 min read
NPC Statement on Pre-Payment Meter suspensions
The National Pensioners’ Convention is issuing the following statement after energy regulator Ofgem announced that it is directing...
253 views
National Pensioners Convention
Jan 19, 20233 min read
End Winter Deaths Scandal
Campaigners protested in freezing conditions outside Parliament today (19th Jan) against the huge numbers struggling and even dying from...
306 views
National Pensioners Convention
Jan 18, 20234 min read
Minute’s Silence outside Parliament for Tens of Thousands Dying from Cold
Campaign groups will join together tomorrow (19th Jan) to protest at the scandalous number of people dying from cold related illnesses....
192 views
National Pensioners Convention
Dec 10, 20221 min read
Warm This Winter Christmas Card
The NPC is encouraging you to send a Christmas Card to your MP asking for what you would like this holiday season. It could be a Decent...
264 views
National Pensioners Convention
Dec 8, 20221 min read
Cold This Christmas
NPC
members will be taking the streets outside Parliament to protest over the shocking cost of food and fuel this winter and the...
234 views
National Pensioners Convention
Dec 7, 20223 min read
Why are key Winter Deaths stats delayed again?
National Pensioners’ Convention members will protest outside Parliament on the coldest day this winter over the shocking cost of food and...
434 views
National Pensioners Convention
Dec 5, 20221 min read
Heat or Eat
This winter, soaring energy bills mean that more than a third of the UK population – many millions of people – will struggle to afford to...
301 views
National Pensioners Convention
Nov 30, 20222 min read
Demand to be Warm This Winter!
National Pensioners’ Convention members will be out in force at two major protests over the shocking cost of heating their homes this...
275 views
National Pensioners Convention
Nov 29, 20221 min read
Excess Winter Deaths - 08.12.22
The NPC Greater London Region will be holding a protest on Thursday 8th December, the day that the Office for National Statistice release...
337 views
National Pensioners Convention
Nov 28, 20222 min read
Warm This Winter - 03.12.22
Worried about the rocketing cost of heating your home this Winter? Make your voice heard and join the End Fuel Poverty Coalition’s Day...
260 views
National Pensioners Convention
Nov 19, 20223 min read
Warm This Winter
Following the Government’s disappointing response to the energy bills crisis gripping the country, the Warm This Winter campaign has...
495 views
National Pensioners Convention
Nov 9, 20222 min read
The Scandal of Smart Meters
The Ofgem report today showing how easy it is for energy companies to switch their customers on smart meters to pre-payment meters is...
926 views
National Pensioners Convention
Nov 5, 20224 min read
End Fuel Poverty Coalition
The overwhelming majority of the population believe the Government should do more to help people through the energy crisis, according to...
346 views
National Pensioners Convention
Sep 27, 20223 min read
Right to Buy
Before the leadership election was called, the Government under Boris Johnson, announced that it was considering whether to extend the...
384 views
National Pensioners Convention
Sep 13, 20228 min read
£2,500 Energy Price Guarantee explained
Which? breaks down how the new scheme will affect your energy payments and what your new electricity and gas rates will be. New Prime...
731 views
National Pensioners Convention
Aug 1, 20224 min read
letter response from Ofgem
In May/June the NPC wrote to Ofgem about energy prices and oil fired system. We have now received a response from Ofgem, The initial...
457 views
National Pensioners Convention
Jul 4, 20221 min read
Issues with £150 Council Tax Rebate
Many people without bank accounts or those with bank accounts but who do not use direct debit payments have faced issues in getting the...
333 views
National Pensioners Convention
Jun 7, 20225 min read
letters to Ofgem
The NPC has written to the Ofgem Chief Executive, Jonathan Brearley, about recent changes to the energy price cap and oil fired systems....
409 views
National Pensioners Convention
May 10, 20222 min read
Queen's Speech - May 2022
NPC Verdict: Disappointing Queen’s Speech fails those in desperate need now Comment by Jan Shortt, General Secretary, National...
367 views
National Pensioners Convention
May 9, 20222 min read
The Queen’s Speech - 10.05.22
Queen’s Speech must not fail our oldest & poorest as they struggle with this devastating cost of living crisis Comment by Jan Shortt,...
253 views
National Pensioners Convention
May 8, 20221 min read
Renters Reform Coalition
Too many people live in insecure, unaffordable and unsafe homes. Successive governments have failed to reform the private rented sector...
240 views
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