Elderly people are "passed like parcels" around a chaotic care system that is struggling to cope with funding cuts, a committee of MPs warns.

Jack Dromey MP, Labour's Shadow Housing Minister, responding to Grant Shapps’ suggestion that councils should offer to help pensioners move to more suitable accommodation to create space for families, said:

The elderly care system is "broken" and must be urgently reformed to stop pensioners "losing everything" to pay for help in old age, the Government's chief adviser warns today.

Millions of pensioners could be forced to pay up to £60,000 for their care in old age under plans being considered by ministers.

Lib Dem Voice has polled our members-only forum to discover what Lib Dem members think of various political issues, the Coalition, and the performance of key party figures. Some 560 party members responded, and we’ve been publishing the full results. 70% back end to free bus pass and TV licences for wealthier pensioners LDV asked: Nick Clegg

Rich pensioners would be doing a "very excellent thing" if they donated their winter fuel allowances to charity, a minister said on Monday.

He’s been reading Ritchie’s report and comes out with this: While the United States has one of the most effective tax regimes, especially for on-the-books wage earners and pensioners, and one of the smallest underground or shadow economies, it has the largest amount of tax evasion measured in dollars. Yes, having the largest economy in

However MPs have complained that the new system is too bureaucratic as they object to having to account for every penny of taxpayer–funded expenditure. Everybody else who gets cash off the taxpayers has to account for each and every penny. Aged pensioners, those who battled the Nazis, strangled Japs in foetid jungles, have to wade

The BBC website has a head-to-head debate between a supporter and opponent of a financial transactions tax, more commonly known as a Tobin or Robin Hood tax. Here is a flavour: There are (at least) three fatal flaws in the plan. Firstly, it will not be the banks but savers and pensioners that foot the

Older couples could be financially better off living apart because of new changes to the welfare system, a leading charity has warned.