PM's hint on pensioner benefits

Press Association
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Prime Minister David Cameron speaks to an audience during a PM Direct event at the Meridian Community Centre in Peacehaven, Sussex. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday March 24, 2014. See PA story POLITICS Pensions. Photo credit should read: Steve Parsons/PA Wire
Prime Minister David Cameron speaks to an audience during a PM Direct event at the Meridian Community Centre in Peacehaven, Sussex. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday March 24, 2014. See PA story POLITICS Pensions. Photo credit should read: Steve Parsons/PA Wire






















David Cameron has hinted that protecting pensioner benefits for wealthy OAPs would go into the Conservatives' next manifesto.

The Prime Minister said not giving benefits, such as winter fuel allowances, bus passes and cold weather payments, to top-rate taxpayers would save only "a tiny amount".

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