ASSISTANCE FOR PENSIONERS

That this House recognises the Financial Assistance Scheme to be woefully inadequate for the purpose of helping those whose pensions have been wound up; further recognises that faith in the pension system must be restored and can only be so restored through Government action; and proposes that the qualifying date, for which benefits accrued will be increased, be extended significantly beyond the 1997 cut-off date so as to ensure a decent standard of living for British pensioners who have had their pension funds wound up.