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Demo on energy price cap
The Scottish Pensioners’ Forum, the campaigning organisation for older people in Scotland will be holding a demonstration on Friday 26th August at 11AM at the Ofgem Offices in Glasgow, when they will be hand delivering a letter, on behalf of their members and affiliates, on the urgent need for action against escalating energy costs.
Rose Jackson, SPF Chair, fumed:
“Ofgem was created to protect the rights of the consumer but yet energy costs for the average household are spiralling out of control. Heating and eating should not be luxuries but they’re quickly becoming that way for too many.
Campaigning Pensioners Call For Action from Ofgem
The Scottish Pensioners’ Forum, the campaigning organisation for older people in Scotland, today applauded the decision of OFGEM non-executive director, Christine Farnish, to resign from the board, on a matter of principle, as she felt they were “[giving] too much benefit to companies at the expense of consumers.”
According to energy campaigners, Ofgem is currently presiding over a shambles. Due to its failure to scrutinise the finances of approximately 30 energy supply companies’ pre-licence, these companies have since gone bust, leaving consumers to pick up the bill whilst allowing millions of pounds in profits to be syphoned off by their directors.
Energy consumers in Scotland already suffer higher energy costs than anywhere else in the UK, yet they now face quarterly increases to their bills. According to an OFGEM spokesperson this is due to the “very real risk of suppliers going bust, which would heap yet more costs onto bills”
“68 is too late” demo
The Scottish Pensioners’ Forum, the campaigning organisation for older people in Scotland, in conjunction with their colleagues at Unite the Union Retired Members and the NPC, will be holding a demonstration on Tuesday 2nd May at Queen Elizabeth House in Edinburgh, when they will be hand delivering a petition to the UK Government demanding that there be an end to any further raising of the state pension age in the UK.
A petition in excess of 33,000 signatures is available on request.
Campaigning pensioners slam UK Government over inadequate handling of cost-of-living crisis
The Scottish Pensioners’ Forum, the campaigning organisation for older people in Scotland, has today slammed the UK Government over an inadequate Spring Statement which is ‘totally out of touch with reality.’
Rose Jackson, SPF Chair fumed:
‘Most working-class people certainly won’t have a spring in their step after this dismal attempt at support from a vastly out of touch UK Government. As the cost of living continues to surge to record highs, this Spring Statement offers nothing but empty promises yet again.
‘How can ordinary people honestly afford to put food on their tables and heat their homes with increases spiralling out of control? The Chancellor’s half-baked attempt to do the right thing just won’t cut it.’
Looming fuel poverty crisis
The Scottish Pensioners’ Forum, the campaigning organisation for older people in Scotland, today hit out at the UK Government over their handling of the looming fuel poverty crisis facing the UK by calling it “hopelessly inadequate.”
Rose Jackson, SPF Chair argued
“The Chancellor’s response to today’s announcement from Ofgem smacks of indifference to the plight of older people. What he is offering in one hand in comparison to what he has taken away with the other with the suspension of the triple lock just isn’t good enough. This must be reinstated.”
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