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Men to get free prescriptions at 60



Author: STEPHEN WARD Legal Affairs Correspondent

Legal Affairs Correspondent

The Government bowed to a European Court equal rights ruling yesterday by giving free prescriptions to men at 60 – the same age as for women – at a cost of pounds 40m a year.

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Osborne receives backing from the City

Author: By Andrew Grice, Political editor

Labour has branded the shadow Chancellor the Tories? ?Achilles heel? and a
?boy in a man?s job? and tried to exploit doubts in the City of London about
his credentials.

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David Prosser: How to ensure Tory pension sums add up

The oddity might be easily resolved by legislation scrapping ? or at least raising ? the UK’s default retirement age, but the wider point is worth worrying about. Expecting people to work longer does indeed save money, but it also rather depends on them having jobs.

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Osborne finds £130bn savings in pensions bill

Author: By Andrew Grice, Political Editor

George Osborne, the shadow Chancellor, will announce today that the Tories would raise the state retirement age to 66 in 2016. Labour’s policy is to set the retirement age at 66 in 2026, at 67 in 2036 and at 68 in 2046.

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Tories offer ‘Home protection plan’ for residential care

Author: By Gavin Cordon, Press Association

Under the Conservatives’ proposals, for a one-off payment of about £8,000,
people in England would receive a guarantee that all fees for permanent
residential care would be waived for the rest of their life.

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