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25th Mar 2019MargaretM32 commented on:
Is going digital isolating elderly people?Well done I think that's brilliant. My grandchildren have kept me up to speed even though I've worked with computers since 1967ViewDate:
25th Mar 2019MargaretM32 commented on:
Is going digital isolating elderly people?No the office won't let me I go to the library and pay 10p a sheet. I do prefer to have a hard copy for my tickets to places and I've used a printer at home but the ink dries up and is expensive to replaceViewDate:
11th Mar 2019MargaretM32 commented on:
Is going digital isolating elderly people?We have a new kind of senior citizen. I am nearly 70 and spent most of my working life putting stuff on the computer from pay, ammunition to land. Now I am retired I am quite happy to use my tablet for booking holidays and social interaction but I don't want to use it all day everyday like the young ones. I have to go to the library to print things off because paperwork is still needed for trips to the theatre, holidays and boarding tickets. I think it is wrong that the utility services and council tax and social housing expect Everyone to have access to a computer. I have just moved into assisted housing and I was expected to use a computer there was no alternative given but in the complex I have to provide my own broadband it is not a given in the community room.ViewDate:
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8th May 2017MargaretM32 commented on:
Should the State Pension be means tested?The state pension is not a benefit it is judged on ni increments so if you have worked for 43 years as i have I shouldnt lose out because someone hasnt worked. Those who lost their right to work should be paid a benefit to supplement their income and their income equal tax free income. I will be paying tax for ever because I have worked since i was a teenager. The government have made a mess of changing the pension age especially for women who were given the choice of paying reduced ni stamps, they also seem to have forgotten the school leaving age was raised in 1973 to 16 which affected a lot of men and women