Submitted by Michael Thompson on Thursday 31st October 2024
Published on Monday 11th November 2024
Current status: Open
Open until: Sunday 11th May 2025
Current Signatures: 5,285
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Tagged with
Decent ~ Demand ~ Dickensian ~ Entitled ~ Government ~ INCREASE ~ Media ~ Nationalism ~ NHS ~ Option ~ Pensions ~ Population ~ state pension ~ system ~ testing ~ The NHS ~ The State ~ Time ~ Times ~ Victorian ~ Wealth
Stop Means Testing Pensioners and increase the State Pension
We demand the government stop means testing pensioners, that we think is a degrading and humiliating practice. We also think the state pension should be increased.
We believe that for too long, our elderly have been portrayed by media as merely burdens on the NHS and the modern welfare state.
We think that the elderly should be entitled to a decent pension and a comfortable lifestyle as many will have already paid into the system for longer than the rest of the population by now. We believe any Government should have a responsibility toward our nation's elderly people.
In the Victorian era, retirement was often only an option for those who had accrued wealth. Are we regressing back to those Dickensian times?
We believe means testing is an abhorrent practice that is demeaning and intrusive.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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