Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called for benefits such as free television licences, winter fuel payments and bus passes to be taken away from wealthy pensioners.
While committing the coalition government to universal benefits until 2015, the Liberal Democrat leader said the issue needed to be reconsidered after that and suggested wealthy pensioners should v...
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