Pensioners "should lose free TV licences and winter fuel"

Alan Milburn, a former health secretary and now an adviser to the coalition, has said that wealthy people ought to lose their automatic right to universal pensioner benefits such as free TV licences and the winter fuel allowance. He was arguing that well-off pensioners should face their share of the pain of austerity, so that cash could be freed up to help the young.

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