What are the Pip and universal credit changes and who is affected?7 minutes agoGetty ImagesThe chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has set out more details about planned benefit cuts as part of her Spring...

A previous version of our article published on 13 March was incorrectly headlined: "State pensioners facing 6-week payment delay as Rachel Reeves' mini-Budget sparks panic". We would like to make...

Tomorrow could be Rachel Reeves’s last chance to rescue the country from job-destroying despair. The Chancellor’s Spring Statement is about much more than making tweaks to the Treasury...

Campaigners have warned Rachel Reeves that taxing the state pension would be a “fundamental mistake”. Dennis Reed, director of over-60s campaign group Silver Voices, handed in a petition with...

Fear and anger mount as 'battle for the soul of Romanian democracy' looms1 day agoSarah RainsfordEastern Europe correspondentReporting fromPoeni, RomaniaBBC/Sarah RainsfordThe Romanian village of...

Government can be more efficient, says Keir Starmer40 minutes agoJennifer McKiernanPolitical reporter, BBC News•@_JennyMcKiernanPA MediaSir Keir Starmer has said that the government can make...

Those are the words of Dennis Reed, founder and director of elderly campaign group Silver Voices.He breaks with the consensus that the state pension age should keep rising and rising, saying it can't...

Fashion model Daisy Lowe has been recruited to advertise heat pumps by posing in Jane Austen-style regency clothes at Muncaster Castle in Cumbria. I’ve no idea whatsoever why the Department for...

Millions of older people are already in the tax system because they have private pensions (often very modest) or income from savings. Every one of these pensioners is, in effect, having their state...

Fear and anger mount as 'battle for the soul of Romanian democracy' looms13 hours agoSarah RainsfordEastern Europe correspondentReporting fromPoeni, RomaniaBBC/Sarah RainsfordThe Romanian village of...