Employment Support Allowance and Injury Awards Latest
An important change to the Police [Injury Benefit] Regulations 2006 that was made via Statutory Instrument on 2nd March 2018. The PIBR have been amended and this amendment rectifies the situation created via the previous amendment which made ESA deductible from an injury award in any circumstances, even if for a different illness/injury than the […]
Communities and Local Government Select Committee recommends new national strategy for older people’s housing
The influential Communities and Local Government Select Committee has published a report following their inquiry into housing and older people. The Committee’s final report, which featured evidence from Later Life Ambitions (LLA) throughout, recommends that a national strategy for older people’s housing is needed to bring together and improve policy in this area. The Committee also agreed with […]
Claim a power of attorney refund
You can get part of your application fee back if you applied to register a power attorney from 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2017. This applies to lasting powers of attorney (LPA) and enduring powers of attorney (EPA). You can only claim a refund if you made the power of attorney in England or […]
Were you a serving officer in 1972 or 1990?
If so you will have been given the opportunity to uprate your widow[er] pension. We have recently been made aware of an issue in relation to the inadequate retention of important pension records around the election made by Officers in 1972, when an option was given to uprate their widows pension entitlement from a third […]
Later Life Ambitions comments on the Government’s Industrial Strategy
Amongst some of the measures announced, the Industrial Strategy will: Support new products and services for the growing global population of older people Support sectors to adapt to a changing and ageing workforce Support care providers to adapt business models to changing demands and encourage new models of care to develop The LLA founding organisations […]
Injury Reviews and Data Protection
ICO states that a Force cannot require excessive amounts of personal data from former officers as part of their Injury on Duty Award (IODA) review process. The requirement for all historical data held about former officers as part of IODA reviews appears to be excessive and in breach of the DPA. ICO and Northumbria Police […]
Later Life Ambitions- Social Care Green Paper delayed again
There is only so much longer the sector can wait The government has announced that it will delay a long-awaited social care ‘Green Paper’ until the summer. Ministers had originally indicated that the paper would be published by the end of this year, however the date has been pushed further and further back […]
Later Life Ambitions
Write to your MP to sign the EDM on Later Life Ambitions. This EDM welcomes Later Life Ambitions, a campaign organisation that represents over a quarter of a million pensioners through three partner organisations; the National Federation of Occupational Pensioners, the Civil Service Pensioners’ Alliance, and the National Association of Retired Police Officers. Template Letter to […]
Survivor Pensions
Everything you need to know about widows/widowers, civil partners and children’s pensions is in our Survivor Pensions section.
Later Life Ambitions says the practice of charging care home fees on the death of a resident is “callous and cruel”
Wednesday 19 April 2017 The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says it has received complaints from families who have been charged by care homes for empty rooms after the death of resident relatives. See full response here