- Certain non-cash benefits (free bus travel, free TV licences and the winter fuel allowance);
- Married couples allowance for older people;
- The age adjusted tax-free income allowance; and
- The earnings link to state pensions (which hasn’t even been re-introduced yet!);
Watch out older people, Booth and Taylor are coming....
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If asked about my political views, liberal is not a word that would ever feature in my response. No subscription to the Guardian newspaper here.
However, on reading the discussion paper from Philip Booth and Corin Taylor for the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) on “How the older generation should suffer its share of the cuts”, I have had to reassess my thoughts on the virtues of beard growing and sandals.
In short, the paper recommends the abolition of a number of benefits currently provided to older people, namely