'Free' insulation plan for all pensioners is only for over-70s
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Your support makes all the difference.Gordon Brown's pledge to provide free insulation to all pensioners was unravelling after it emerged the offer was limited to the over-70s and those on benefits.
The offer was the centre-piece of £910m package of energy-saving measures announced this week by the Prime Minister. He said: "All lower income and all pensioner households will be eligible for free loft and cavity wall insulation and other measures."
But a Whitehall spokesman confirmed only the over-70s and some pensioners on benefits would be eligible, with discounts of up to 50 per cent for others.
The discrepancy emerged after pensioners in their 60s rang a helpline to get information about the offer.
Alan Duncan, the shadow Business Secretary, called it: "a scrambled package".
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