MP for Newcastle North
Newcastle North MP, Catherine McKinnell, challenged Work and Pensions Ministers in the Commons today (11th March) on the discriminatory impact of the Coalition’s new, single tier, state pension. Around 430,000 women born between April 1952 and July 1953 will retire before 2017 and will therefore not be eligible for the new single tier state pension. Continue Reading...
Newcastle North MP, Catherine McKinnell, challenged Work and Pensions Ministers in the Commons this afternoon on the discriminatory impact of the Coalition’s new state pension. Around 430,000 women born between April 1952 and July 1953 will retire before 2017 and will therefore not be eligible for the new single tier state pension. They will draw Continue Reading...
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Local MP Catherine McKinnell is backing a new campaign to help protect pensioners from rogue doorstep traders. The “Doorstep Selling Campaign” has been launched by the Office of Fair Trading to help older people avoid doorstep scams– where unscrupulous sellers pressure them into buying expensive products with hidden costs that they don’t need, or could Continue Reading...
Newcastle North MP, Catherine McKinnell, signed up to Anchor Housing’s ‘Grey Pride’ petition today, during a visit to Anchor’s ‘Cranlea’ care home. Cranlea provides residential care for up to 39 older people and is based in Kingston Park in Catherine’s constituency. The Grey Pride petition is a nationwide campaign led by Anchor Housing to ask Continue Reading...
Catherine McKinnell, MP for Newcastle North, has hit out today at the Coalition’s unfair changes to the stage pension age, which will affect around 1,100 women in her constituency. The Government’s plans to accelerate increases to the state pension age mean that 500,000 women across the country will have to wait more than a year Continue Reading...
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