If you’re on the state pension, you’re getting a bit more of it from today – but it probably won’t go very far. Payments have gone up by 3.1%, less than half the rate of inflation.
Charities working with older people in Scotland say 150,000 pensioners are already living in poverty and they’re calling for more to be done to help them.
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