You can apply for help through the supplementary pension (income support after April 1988) and housing benefit systems.

If you're not receiving supplementary pension, you have to claim yourself from the council.

Like supplementary pension it tops up your income to the amount the government says you need to live on.

As with supplementary pension you are supposed to pay for heating out of weekly income.

This must not only mean a single market for supplementary pensions, but the whole package of legislation concerning the financial services.

Therefore the Commission cannot accept the other additional amendments on supplementary pensions.

Firstly: what in her view is the role of supplementary pensions?

That being said, this directive has done nothing to bring about a common market in supplementary pensions.

It is the supplementary pensions that are being discussed here.

Some of us, myself included, really want these provisions on supplementary pensions to be left out.