Tories pledge to ends means-testing

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UK - The link between state pensions and earnings will be restored if the Conservatives win the next general election.

Tory pensions spokesman Nigel Waterson claims the present government’s reliance on means-testing is driving more pensioners into poverty and he pledged to restore the earnings link as part of radic...

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