Iain Duncan Smith targets poor pensioners with plans to scrap free bus passes and winter fuel allowance
Iain Duncan Smith’s move flies in the face of David Cameron’s election pledge to rule out cuts to pensioner benefits
Iain Duncan Smith tonight stepped up the Tory war on the poor by turning his sights on society’s most vulnerable.
The penny-pinching Work and Pensions Secretary wants to slash winter fuel allowances for pensioners and scrap their free bus passes and TV licences in a move that would spell misery for millions of people.
His cruel cuts could mean OAPs having to choose between heating their homes or eating as they lose up to £300 in cold weather payments.
And the over-75s would also have to fork out £145 for TV licences.
Mr Duncan Smith’s move finally destroyed any claim the party had to being caring Conservatives.
And it flies in the face of David Cameron’s election pledge to rule out cuts to pensioner benefits.
Mr Duncan Smith, whose flagship Universal Credit policy is in chaos, said the Government was discussing whether to put OAP payments into a wider Whitehall cap on welfare spending.
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