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The new figures from My Pension Expert highlight how savers still face ’significant delays’ when trying to move their money, with an improvement of just one day compared to the previous year

Police in Kent are investigating after two elderly people were found dead at a property in Sandwich, a port town in Kent - officers have launched an investigation into the tragedy

He then allegedly tried to kill himself while lying awake next to her

A council has been fined £100,000 after a vulnerable pensioner choked to death on a sandwich.

The state pension increased by 8.5% this month, in line with September 2023’s wage growth figures, but the latest hike could lead 400,000 people into income tax brackets

Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has refused to increase the threshold when people start paying income tax so record numbers of pensioners are being landed with tax bills

Angela Madden, who chairs the WASPI campaign which seeks justice over the pension age scandal, says Labour and the Conservatives must commit to a compensation plan fast

Mirror agony aunt Coleen Nolan advises a reader who gets by on a small pension and relies on handouts from her secretive husband

After weeks of speculation, the Chancellor finally shared his fiscal plan ahead of the General Election and here we take a look at who is classed as a"winner" in today's budget and who is classed as a "loser"

Mike Fisher, 90, is still averaging a hattrick every game following a footballing career which began 75 years ago in 1949

Roger Clarke, 77, was transferred from an open prison to a maximum security jail after his complaints about breaching of his human rights landed him in hot water with prison bosses

Henrietta "Hetty" Thornber, who turned 104 today, has spoken of her long and eventful life in which she survived the Blitz as a twenty-something in Bootle, Merseyside

Stephen Habberley, 64, an SAS veteran, had a long running row with Keys Group who often carried out work in the lane behind where they rented and suffered a heart attack after getting in a dispute with builders

Almost a quarter of the population of Marlow in Buckinghamshire are aged over 65 and many of them think a Wetherspoons pub will attract 'the wrong sort of people'

The spooky images were taken by urbexer Kyle Urbex in Lincolnshire. They show that the home was lived in by an elderly couple John Fisher an Mary Angela Fisher with a person called Ursula

Andrelino Vieira da Silva was born on February 3, 1901, just 11 days after Queen Victoria died and has seen countless in what he says is 123 years of living - making him the oldest person alive

The missing pensioner, 77, was marooned on the giant slab of ice on the giant Yenisei River in Siberia. He was last seen floating downstream after the ice became detached from the riverbank

A drug addict got far more than he bargained for when he attempted to steal a disabled pensioner's car - with the elderly woman fighting her corner with a walking stick

Robert Burns Garrow, known as Bobby, was surrounded by family and friends for his special day as he turned 100 years old. He credited his long life to porridge at breakfast and a "wee dram at night"

Pension Credit is also known as a gateway benefit for other financial help and one of the extra perks claimants can get is a free TV Licence if they are over the age of 75 years

Barbara McInnis says drumming keeps her feeling young and has given her a new lease of life, thanks to Simply Red founding member Chris Joyce

A large number of women were found to have been underpaid their state pension by the DWP and over the last three years the pension department has been working to repay those affected by the issue

Yvonne realised she was eligible for the benefit 13 years ago after an adviser at her local Citizens Advice Bureau told her she could claim - she now shares her story to encourage others to claim where they can

People living in the Bristol City Council over-60s community at Walwyn Gardens say their home has been “trashed” while the whole process has “induced depression and anxiety”