To ask what you think of this?

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Poorer pensioner couples will lose more than £7,000 a year, under a cut “sneaked out” while MPs are preparing for the showdown Brexit vote.

Ministers have been accused of attempting to bury the impact of the change to pension credit, which tops up the incomes of hard-up elderly people.

It means couples where only one partner is over the state pension age, which is now 65 or up to 68 for both men and women depending on when they were born, will no longer receive the extra benefit.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/pension-credit-cut-benefits-payment-government-austerity-conservatives-brexit-a8728631.html

Oh jeez. That means me n DH would be screwed. We have a 10 year age gap between us

Hopefully you'll be fit enough to work and your DH won't need kind of care.

*any kind of care

Like everything else with benefits, punished if you’re in a couple. I’d be livid if I was a pensioner and “my” money got stopped b’cos my husband/bf was still working age. I heard yesterday they’re talking about what a good idea it’d be to stop old ppl voting too. Absolute joke

I just saw another news story where the change to new type of disability benefits has cost 2 billion. Partly due to all the appeals by people whose benefits were wrongly stopped and then reinstated.