Older people will continue to pay higher prices for insurance after ministers decided that age discrimination laws would not be applied to financial services.  Campaigners reacted angrily to the Government’s announcement, which ignored complaints that pensioners suffered discrimination when buying insurance, especially for travel. 

Breakthrough Breast Cancer says that research it has funded shows that some older patients are not benefiting from the advances in radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery over the last ten years that have dramatically improved the survival chances of younger patients. As a result breast cancer patients aged over 80 years are 40 times less likely…

Viewing entries in Professional Adviser In October last year, the government announced the SPA would rise to 66 by 2020, accelerating the pace of change advocated by the Labour government, which planned to raise the SPA to 66 by 2026. However, the OECD says the reform does not go far enough.

At first glance there would seem to be few similarities between Jilly Cooper, the queen of bodice-ripping romance, Vivienne Westwood, fashion’s enfant terrible, and Professor Richard Dawkins, scourge of religion. And that, so the charity WRVS says, is the point of its report on the 66 best examples in the UK of men and women over…

The European Commission on Thursday sent a letter of formal notice to Greece calling it to comply with European Court ruling concerning equality of retirement age between men-women. The letter is the first stage of prejudicial procedure in respect of breach of former European Court ruling concerning civil servants retirement age.The European Commission says that…

Eurobarometer recently published a survey that once again showed that there is a serious problem of discrimination across Europe. One in six people said they had personally experienced discrimination in the past year; 58% of Europeans considered that prejudice in relation to age was widespread in their country, while 53% mentioned disability. For those who…

Former Countryfile presenter Miriam O’Reilly is to part company with theBBC a year after her landmark ageism win against the corporation. O’Reilly is leaving 12 months into a three-year deal with the BBC to explore other opportunities and set up a support network for women facing discrimination in the workplace. It is just over a year since…

Mr Kerr began working for O’Hara Brothers Surfacing Ltd (“O’Hara”) in February 1998. His job involved surfacing roads and driveways. O’Hara placed employees in ‘gangs’ which were rostered for work. Mr Kerr’s gang was rostered for work, but Mr Kerr was not informed of this. When he asked for an explanation, O’Hara informed him that…

The Patients Association highlights harrowing cases of pensioners being left starving or suffering in agony, and relations being ignored as they watch their loved ones die because nurses claim to be “too busy” to help. The head of the charity said the report, which “shames everyone involved”, showed that despite government promises of action following…

Workers would no longer be forced to retire at 65 under radical new Government proposals. Older people would also be given the right to request flexible hours from their employer. Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman says a major shake-up in the law is vital to smash the idea that people are ‘past it’ once they…