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Pensioners and families living on fixed incomes are hit the hardest, forced to stretch rations, skip meals or rely on remittances from relatives abroad — if they are lucky enough to have them.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026

Gordon Brown, of local charity Glasgow Action for Pensioners, first spotted the problem in November last year, and said he flagged it with the energy supplier.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2025

Dave Green, who designed the show's 2023's Contemplation and Celebration garden in memory of the late Queen, said he was "very lucky" to work with the Chelsea Pensioners to design their garden.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2025

Pensioners, children under the age of five, people with health conditions and those who are pregnant are most at risk.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2025

We have seen Cardinals in the Service of Sovereigns; and I dare affirm, there are very few of ’em that wou’d refuse to be Pensioners to an Elector of the Empire.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von