{"id":464,"date":"2012-08-13T20:47:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T20:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/pensioners-income-reduction-unaceptable-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-08-13T20:47:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T20:47:19","slug":"pensioners-income-reduction-unaceptable-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/pensioners-income-reduction-unaceptable-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensioners\u2019 Income Reduction Unaceptable- Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Commenting on figures  released this week from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), which show a  6% fall in the average weekly incomes of elderly people &#8211; or \u20ac25.63  between 2009 and 2010, Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n Crowe said it  was unacceptable and expressed concern at the prospect of a further cut  following the next proposed budget.<\/p>\n<p> Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThese figures show a significant drop in the income of elderly people  with the average weekly income falling by 6% between 2009 and 2010 and  those aged over 65 experiencing a drop in income.<\/p>\n<p> Clearly, many older people are struggling to make ends meet in these very difficult times.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe Survey on Income and Living Conditions also reported the proportion  of income of pensioners reliant on\u00a0\u00a0 Welfare payments alsoincreased by  almost 7 per cent from 56.8 per cent in 2004 to 63.4 per cent in 2010.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Those at risk of poverty was at a staggering 9.6 per cent..<\/p>\n<p> \u201cPensioners\u00a0 and their representative groups are very worried  particularly as they face the added prospect of having to pay for the  household charges and water charges on this reduced\u00a0 income.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIn March the International Monetary Fund (IMF) supposedly told the  Irish Government to scrap some free benefits for pensioners to save  money.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Considering how the Government parties\u00a0 have implemented their  increasingly punitive austerity agenda, it is likely that the coming  budget\u00a0 will look again at traditional entitlements of pensioners such  as their right to free travel, medical cards, cheaper electricity, gas  and television licenses.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cSinn F\u00e9in with others will oppose such measures and the rights\u2019and  entitlements of our elderly citizens, who have made huge sacrifices that  have greatly benefited this State. Citizens who helped pave the way for  the boom years of the so called Celtic Tiger must be protected in the  forthcoming budget and in light of these latest statistics need their  reduced incomes protected\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting on figures released this week from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), which show a 6% fall in the average weekly incomes of elderly people &#8211; or \u20ac25.63 between 2009 and 2010, Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n Crowe said it was unacceptable and expressed concern at the prospect of a further cut following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}