Pensioners get by on £6,000 a year
Published Date:
21 April 2008
HALF the country's single pensioners have to live on incomes of less than £6,000 a year, official figures show.
Pensions are providing recipients with only modest incomes, and 62 per cent of couples received less than £10,000 a year from them during 2005-6. Half of single recipients got less than £6,000, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The full article contains 70 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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Last Updated:
20 April 2008 8:46 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
