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Stop Means Testing Pensioners and increase the State Pension.

Submitted by Michael Thompson on Monday 12th May 2025

Published on Thursday 5th June 2025

Current status: Closed

Closed: Friday 5th December 2025

Signatures: 217

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Decent ~ Demand ~ Dickensian ~ Entitled ~ Media ~ Nationalism ~ NHS ~ Option ~ Pensions ~ Population ~ state pension ~ system ~ testing ~ The NHS ~ The State ~ Victorian ~ Wealth

Petition Action

Stop Means Testing Pensioners and increase the State Pension.

Petition Details

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.

Additional Information

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. 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.


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