Welfare
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Worries increase over winter fuel
In a sign of challenging times ahead for the elderly, calls to an information helpline have more than trebled in recent weeks.
Independent Age, a UK-based advisory service, say calls have increased because elderly people are worried about their bills.
“The recent changes to Winter Fuel Payment means we are facing a crisis this winter. Since the announcement, phone calls to Independent Age’s Helpline about Pension Credit and Winter Fuel Payment worries have more than trebled.”
It comes following a Labour government announcement that Winter Fuel Payment’s will stop for some claimants this year.
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People trafficking: The facts
The fact of people trafficking is undeniable: numerous police reports, evidence of busts, and perpetrators locked up. It’s a weekly if not daily reality in the UK for the foreseeable future.
The facts of the matter are more startling however because they’re so personal and that is where it counts.
The self-importance human traffickers and people traffickers feel must be a real high. It’s also a feat of researching and logistical knowhow to get it off the ground and running in such an effective way.
It’s stumped us at times and left our best political minds nonplussed.
The reality is that neither human traffickers nor people traffickers are important people or clever at all. The sort of work they do ruins any community and all our lives by its serious interruption to our daily living.