Current and Forthcoming Projects

Pensions

Since PRIAE’s inception in 1998, PRIAE has addressed the issue of poverty and financial awareness starting from its major commissioned report from the Royal Commission on Long Term Care for the Elderly (1999). PRIAE has consistently raised these issues with Ministers of Pensions and officers at the Department of Work and Pensions – and offered practical solutions to increase awareness and uptake of pension credit for instance. The Institute takes some credit for the Department’s greater attention in this area in recent period. Minister of Pensions Mr Stephen Timms MP has invited PRIAE to resubmit these ideas.

To date to influence all this work, PRIAE has worked with one exception, without funding – and will continue to do as it regards poverty of BME elders, as for all elders, as unacceptable in 21st century living in a rich country. As Naina Patel, PRIAE’s director said while sharing the platform with the Minister and EOC at the TUC Conference (2005) that, ‘ BME elders, like all elders, are not asking for excessive income in old age, just reasonable income to have a decent old age’. However project funding would help advance its work much further to support BME elders and organisations fighting poverty in old age.

PRIAE in working with a project led by NOPE in Netherlands, produced two important reports on BME women and pensions at 40+; the European Commission staff from the Social Exclusion Unit commended the report in terms of its writing and analysis and serving as an important contribution to addressing poverty in old age.

PRIAE responds to the Pensions’ Report from the Turner Commission - (143kb Adobe Acrobat PDF)
Report on Women and pensions at 40+ - (1Mb Adobe Acrobat PDF)
PRIAE Women 40+ Age magazine - (3.2Mb Adobe Acrobat PDF)