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Budget: Hospital 'hotel charges' for pensioners abolished

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Tuesday 08 April 2003 19:00 EDT
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The Chancellor told MPs the Government was abolishing hospital accommodation charges for everyone who had charges imposed on them through the social security system.

All singe pensioners with income below £139 per week and pensioner couples with total income below £203 a week would benefit from Pension Credit from October.

Mr Brown also announced that pensioners aged 80 and above would now receive an extra £100 winter allowance – bringing the total allowance to £300 for almost two million people.

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