An elderly woman who struggled for months to get the Government to investigate why she was on just £11.17 a week in state pension has received a backpayment worth nearly £19,000. Batul Khanbhai, 70, who will also now get £67.49 a week going foward, first challenged her low pension in 2013. She resumed efforts to … Read more
I have a query regarding my National Insurance contributions record which directly affects my state pension. I am 62 and worked full time in the teaching profession throughout my career, taking early retirement at 55 to become my husband’s carer. Incidentally, he passed away six months ago. I am now investigating where I stand as … Read more
Britney Spears attorney ‘compares her mental state to a patient in a coma’ … as her conservatorship conflict with father Jamie rages on Lawyer Sam Ingham said singer, 38, was unable to sign a sworn declaration Ingham said Britney was not able at this time to consent to a legal arrangement The judge in the … Read more
Hitachi’s abandonment of nuclear investment at Wylfa in Anglesey together with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s harder line on human rights in China may do Britain’s struggling engineering warrior Rolls-Royce a favour. For the last several years, the group’s researchers have been championing British-designed and manufactured small modular reactors (SMRs) to provide a solution to energy … Read more
The rise in state pension age to 66 today has reignited calls for people to be given the option of drawing it earlier, but on a reduced income. Increased unemployment and caring responsibilities among older people during the Covid-19 pandemic mean the idea should be looked at again, say some pension experts. Older people who want … Read more
Here are the recent and future changes to the state pension age, so you can find out when you will be allowed to retire. What is happening to the state pension? The state pension age is rising. And it’s happening at breakneck speed. For donkey’s years, the age at which you could claim your state … Read more
State pension: The full rate is currently £175.20 a week, or around £9,100 a year Older people must reach the age of 66 before they can draw the state pension, starting from next week. The state pension age has been hiked for both men and women – though far more dramatically for the latter – as … Read more
More than half of nation-state cyber attacks in the last year have originated from Russia, Microsoft has revealed in a new report. According to the firm’s annual Digital Defense Report, 52 per cent of state-sponsored hacking attempts from July 2019 and June 2020 were Russian in origin. Exactly a quarter during this time period came … Read more
A ‘heartbroken’ mother has told how her adoptive son tricked his autistic younger brother into accessing material about Islamic State before turning him into the police as an ‘act of retaliation’. The boy, then 17, goaded his sibling to make a dossier of information about the terrorist group using the dark web – a part … Read more
EU leaders have unveiled new migration rules that they hope will overhaul Europe’s failing migration policy and put an end to migrant camps in northern France. Refugees arriving in the continent will have their biometric data and fingerprints taken and a decision on their future made within three months giving them less time to disappear from … Read more