Royal British Legion Campaign: Return To Rationing?

EDM number 2172 in 2007-08, proposed by Bob Russell on 06/10/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Elderly people and Incomes and poverty.

That this House acknowledges the latest campaign by The Royal British Legion entitled `Return to Rationing?' which tackles issues that are leading older members of the UK's ex-Service community into a life of poverty; notes that it is estimated that there are more than 2.5 million pensioners living on an income that is considered too low to maintain a healthy lifestyle, with Government figures showing that this number is increasing by hundreds of thousands every year; and calls on the Government to support the aims of the campaign, which is being promoted in collaboration with the charity Age Concern, to give more older people access to the financial benefits that they are entitled to, an automatic payment system for council tax benefit, making a full disregard of war pension income a statutory requirement, distributing a £50 fuel voucher to those aged over 70 and in receipt of pension credit and doubling the personal expense allowance for elderly care home residents.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.