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The Government needs to address the inequality in travel for older people.

Submitted on Thursday 20th September 2018

Rejected on Thursday 27th September 2018

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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The Government needs to address the inequality in travel for older people.

Petition Details

Based on where you live, you are treated differently. This goes against equality and is overt discrimination. LA's are all setting differing ages for 'Older' people to receive free travel. The postcode lottery is made more unpalatable as in Scotland, Wales and NI, people aged 60 get free travel.

Additional Information

For example, in West Midlands both women and men have to wait until state retirement age. Yet in London, women can get free travel at age 60. A similar arrangement operates in Manchester. I was not aware of these anomalies until recently and so accepted, as our fate, that the free travel was addressed to align to state retirement age. Now i am disabused of that notion, i believe we need to bring fairness and equality to all. The Government may wish to hide behind Local Authority funding i say no


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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