I had to stop work to become carer for DH and feel every pensioner should automatically receive the same realistic fixed basic rate pension, maybe based on minimum wage rates, and scrap pension credit, so everyone gets say, £150 per week, not means tested, with rent/council benefits/winter fuel allowance etc given authomatically to those in need of such help e.g. disabled, long-term sick etc or extreme age).Then those who are "savers", and/or who have work pensions,not spenders, should be allowed to keep as much as they manage to earn in interest, only paying tax on income. I have a tiny work pension, less than £10 per month and inherited £10,000 from my mum's estate, which I invested shrewdly, to make sure that I can afford funerals, "rainy day" expenses etc, so DH's ESA was immediately cut. Since I'm saving the government thousands each year by acting as full-time carer for both DH and DS, I feel aggrieved that on reaching retirement age, I lost my Carers' Allowance and it feels very unfair that because I'm frugal and careful with money, I am being penalised. Does anyone else agree or do you feel that I'm being unfair?