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Merida55

@Merida551
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We were heard! Thank you so much to our President and Vice Presidents for their unstinting support. Most of all, thanks to the members who shared their very moving stories with dignity.
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War widows attack MoD over 'ridiculous' loophole that would make them £8,000 a year better off if they divorced | Evening Standard standard.co.uk/news/politics…
'Why should we have to divorce our husbands to keep our war widows pensions?'

'Why should we have to divorce our husbands to keep our war widows pensions?'

Dozens of war widows who remarried have been refused an £87,500 payout by the MoD because of a ‘mean-spirited, last minute’ change to rules

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Angry war widow fumes at Rishi Sunak - ‘We’ve been lied to and deceived’ express.co.uk/news/uk/184532…
Angry war widow fumes at Rishi Sunak - ‘We’ve been lied to and deceived’

Angry war widow fumes at Rishi Sunak - ‘We’ve been lied to and deceived’

EXCLUSIVE: An angry war widow among scores set to miss out on a new ‘Recognition Payment' has confronted the Prime Minister - telling him: "We've been lied to and deceived."

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Replying to @JohnnyMercerUK
Good efforts…we NEED a VOICE for the BEREAVED COHORT! Still fighting the debacle of the War Widow Pension/ex-gratia recognition payment! @VeteransUK_MOD @AWMurrison @RishiSunak @WarWidowsAssoc @rnrmwidows @RAFWidows
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Replying to @vloaiza @hmtreasury @JohnnyMercerUK @ArmywidowsA
@CorporalScotty @WarWidowsAssoc @rnrmwidows @RAFWidows #warwidows #campaign300 @RishiSunak in 2023 War Widows are still being lied to and deceived! #injustice #discrimination
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"Britain's forgotten war widows say a government scheme to finally give them a special Recognition Payment is a total fiasco." express.co.uk/news/uk/183395…

‘Slap in the face’ for war widows in fight for pensions justice

Britain's forgotten war widows say a government scheme to finally give them a special Recognition Payment is a total fiasco.

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It was sobering, too, that while thousands had crowded the cenotaph less than an hour before the war widows’ service, few remained to pay their respects to those left behind. Sometimes, it’s easier to remember the dead than it is to face those who are a living reminder of them.
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Mary@Mary903100149 Nov 2023
Replying to @raqualharpertit @AWMurrison @PoppyLegion @HouseofCommons
Raqual thinking of you and all the others that were left behind after the ultimate sacrifice was paid, unbelievable that a government that espouses family values can treat war widows this way. Broken promises to the men and women who served.
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Replying to @AWMurrison @PoppyLegion @HouseofCommons
Absolutely disgusted with your response today regarding the ex-gratia payment. I wish I had known when I thanked you, in person, and told you my story- you didn’t even mention I didn’t meet the criteria-criteria that was not agreed! Was always about the WWP! #betrayed#deceived
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Please don’t forget about the often ‘forgotten group’ Bereaved Families. Not your remit, but in today’s Government, some Widows are STILL having to fight for their WWP- or at least the agreed ex-gratia payment! @WarWidowsAssoc @RAFWidows @rnrmwidows @AWMurrison @RishiSunak
Johnny Mercer (@JohnnyMercerUK) profile pictureJohnny Mercer@JohnnyMercerUK7 Nov 2023
How we look after our veterans. and where they sit in the consciousness of our Prime Minister, speaks to the values and character of an administration. Proud of the PM today 👇
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Bereaved, then abandoned: Call for better support for military widows. People whose partners died while serving in the Armed Forces say they feel overlooked and let down by the military community, according to a report published today... bit.ly/3yiivq3 @WarWidowsAssoc

Call for better support for military widows < RAF Families Federation

People whose partners died while serving in the Armed Forces say they feel overlooked and let down by the military community, according to a report published today by Northumbria University. For many...

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Prince Harry warned he is now a 'pariah' in the UK and 'increasingly unpopular' in US #PrinceHarryMemoir #PrinceHarrySpare express.co.uk/news/royal/172…
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The only way through grief is to go through it. 🧡 Grief is just love with nowhere to go.
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Thank you to my local MP Douglas Ross @Douglas4Moray for your time today and your continued support of the Parity With Our Peers campaign for reinstatement of the war widows pension to the 300 war widows left behind @blythe_gillian @Mary90310014 @Merida551 @JudeHowcroft67
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Marriage matters…. Hopefully now with the support of GB News in telling our story and the commitment from @trussliz the 300 War Widows will get their pensions reinstated. All we did was get married again. @blythe_gillian @GBNEWS @angiemackenzie1 @markwhiteTV @WarWidowsAssoc
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@GBNEWS11 Aug 2022
'Marriage is the basis of social order...and who that matters most for, is children.' Editor of The Conservative Woman Kathy Gyngell on why marriage matters, after ONS figures revealed that the majority of babies are born out of wedlock.
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