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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Increase state pensions to £250 a week for all UK single pensioners. More details

Submitted by Michael Thompson of Link-Age/Countrywide – Deadline to sign up by: 09 May 2009 – Signatures: 342

Petition update, 26 June 2009

You signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "Increase state pensions to £250 a week for all UK single pensioners."

The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view it here:

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page19793


Prime Minister's Office

More details from petition creator

Increase State Pensions to £250 a week for all UK single pensioners, with a relevant increase for couples, this is easily affordable by abolishing the excessivelly costly means test system this is demeaning and intrusive to the elderly. Plus the government are sitting on an NI "surplus" of 40 billion, which is expected to increase to 74.1 billion by 2012. We also request that the Prime Minister abolishes Council Tax, because all British pensioners have spent their entire working lives paying income tax, and N.I. contributions into the system.

Current signatories

Michael Thompson, the Petition Creator, joined by:

  • John J Costello
  • J.Keith Patchett
  • R Fraser
  • Marie Francis
  • Patricia Clinton
  • Anne Walsh
  • Pamela Thompson
  • Robert Shetliffe
  • d porritt
  • John Thouless
  • Thomas Innes
  • Peter Heaney
  • Mr Partis (petitions.pm.gov.uk/europensions/)
  • ann wheatley
  • J RICHARDS
  • david heath
  • Olive Jacobs
  • J.Haworth
  • Ronald Cook
  • J.Lodge
  • gloria & keith patten
  • macushla
  • L Andrews
  • michael eaton
  • L.D.Allman
  • Eileen Lord
  • June Finch
  • John Dunbavin
  • Michael McManus
  • alison rafferty
  • John Quick
  • M Marston
  • Rob Levy
  • Ron Regan
  • Bryan F Maher
  • david neale
  • JOHN A FRANCIS OBE
  • Mike Smith
  • Alan Cook
  • Elizabeth Vallance
  • Louise Herold
  • Nat Queen
  • Catherine Knight
  • Barry Harvey
  • Isabel Guthrie
  • W.J.Conway
  • Hazel Humphrey
  • D A Claridge
  • sandra smith
  • Eric Tranter
  • Lorraine M Copley
  • Peter James Moore
  • M Tiltman
  • yvonne reeves
  • Jenny Lilleyman
  • V.Gradowski
  • Walter Crawford
  • jason cox
  • janet hague
  • Patricia Betts
  • STEPHEN SEPHTON
  • John Kerr
  • Nerval
  • Michael
  • robert Powell
  • Andrew Stevens
  • Wendy Howell
  • michael furn
  • C Carr
  • Derek Mottershaw
  • Joanne Edwards
  • Alice Lelean
  • Diane Wray
  • R Cross
  • Beryl Palmer
  • Hetty Garlick
  • mary theresa lathwell
  • Charles Henry
  • Stephen Waters
  • Janet E.Dodds
  • Mrs Ayleen Pilling
  • Rosemary Cooper
  • Sue Axton
  • Hilary Perry
  • Cloe Millington
  • Peter Thomson
  • Kathleen Toppin
  • Mrs Anna-Marie Wallace
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  • Angela Burrow
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  • John Whitear
  • Maggi Stewart
  • Doreen Butterworth
  • Victor Goddard
  • Jillian Massey
  • Phillip Vanderwarker
  • elizabeth lean
  • Roger Edwards [Pensioners Party]
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  • Robert Briscoe
  • Sandie Seward
  • Peter Elliot
  • Val Newman
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  • maureen kilgour
  • ERIC NUTTER
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