Maybe next time you pay your mortgage at little over 1% you will spare a thought for the poor pensioners.

Much easier to pick on some poor old pensioner and the inoffensive sparrow outside his window.

The Communists have relied primarily on poor pensioners for electoral support.

We have secured vital support for the 2.5 million poorest pensioners.

But there are far more poor pensioners than rich ones.

The poorest pensioners are a particularly vulnerable group, Hirsch warns.

It is perhaps worth pointing out that in the past three years we have spent some £350 million on the poorer pensioners.

I wanted to make sure that poorer pensioners did not see a smaller rise in their income.

Labour did even better for the old, with fewer poor pensioners than for 50 years.

He would eventually die a poor pensioner in 1880.