{"id":64070,"date":"2024-08-19T13:28:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T13:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=64070"},"modified":"2024-08-19T13:28:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T13:28:42","slug":"labours-next-targets-in-war-on-pensioner-benefits-free-bus-passes-and-nhs-prescriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/19\/labours-next-targets-in-war-on-pensioner-benefits-free-bus-passes-and-nhs-prescriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour&#8217;s next targets in war on pensioner benefits: free bus passes and NHS prescriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62511\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PM-Starmer-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PM-Starmer-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PM-Starmer-360x209.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PM-Starmer.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">P<\/span>ensioner benefits have been squeezed for years and the assault looks set to intensify as Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves takes money from the older generation and gives it to needy train drivers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/labour-s-next-targets-in-war-on-pensioner-benefits-free-bus-passes-and-nhs-prescriptions\/ar-AA1p02MI?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=301b83bef97446e7af1ddaa9a050e65f&amp;ei=68\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Pensioner benefits have been squeezed for years and the assault looks set to intensify as Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves takes money from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Pensioner-calculating.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64072,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64070\/revisions\/64072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}