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Life on the Pension

The old age pension goes up. In future a single pensioner will live on £6.75 a week - and married couples on £10.90. Is money all that is needed? The old face problems which the rest of us, too often, push to one side - while we live in the Welfare State that their generation built. In almost every country they are respected as 'senior citizens.' Here they are, usually, just 'the old' and often made to feel a nuisance. Jeanne La Chard looks, with old people, at 'Life on the Pension' and in the studio Desmond Wilcox discusses with them, and others, what, perhaps, it ought to be.

English
  • Originally Aired April 19, 1972
  • Network BBC Two
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