All news on the topic: Pensioner

Jamiel Slaney-Summers, 65, was jailed for more than five years after she forged the will of 85-year-old Rita Barnsley to steal her life savings in one of the UK’s biggest elder fraud cases.

A retiree has passed away after being robbed while withdrawing money from an ATM at a post office in north London.

A police motorcyclist hit and killed a pensioner while driving over the speed limit and through a red light as he escorted the Duchess of Edinburgh through London, a court heard.

A pensioner who killed his stepdaughter and her husband in their home before picking their children up from school was “driven by resentment,” a judge has ruled.

An 87-year-old pensioner with dementia and living in a care home has been handed a criminal conviction over £43 of unpaid car tax, in the latest shocking case to emerge from the controversial Single Justice Procedure.

A farmer was tricked out of his life savings by a conman who spent the money on luxury dining and trips abroad.

A pensioner who attempted to smuggle cocaine worth more than £600,000 into the UK hidden in his mobility scooter has been jailed.

Two officers responding to a call from a care home in East Sussex allegedly also struck Donald Burgess with a baton.

A pensioner has said he was beaten up and left for dead with two cracked ribs when 50 members of the traveller community descended onto a leafy Surrey village.

A pensioner was murdered by a balaclava-clad 15-year-old who slapped him around the face with a slider while a 13-year-old girl laughed and filmed the ‘pure violence’ on her phone, a court has heard.

This is the British cyclist facing jail in Finland for hacking a pensioner to death with an axe.

Police have made an arrest after a 72-year-old woman was hit by a car and killed last night.

Earlier this year, the new Labour Government means-tested the DWP benefit so instead of all pensioners over the age of 66 getting between £100 and £300 in support for energy costs this winter only those claiming certain benefits will

The DWP is contacting everyone who is being moved over to Universal Credit in stages - and when it is your turn, you’ll receive a letter in the post known as a ’migration notice’

The warning has come as hundreds of thousands of pensioners across the country could be at risk of receiving a bill from the government tax department next year

Millions of pensioners are set to lose winter fuel payments this year after an attempt to block the cuts failed in Parliament.

TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak made the call as he expressed ’real concerns’ about Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s decision to cut the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners

Winter Fuel Payments used to be available to every household where someone is over state pension age, but now only those claiming means-tested benefits, including Pension Credit, can get it

Charity Independent Age has warned a shake-up of winter fuel payments could be dangerous as new data suggests hundreds of thousands who are entitled to it could miss out

Former pensions minister Sir Steve Webb has been contacted by four people who had not been awarded any inherited state pension when they retired when they should have been

New category of widows and widowers on receiving end of DWP errors, says former minister