A major campaign group has said big questions need answered on the state of Scottish pensions after the independence referendum.
The UK’s biggest pensioner organisation, the National Pensioners Convention, has written to the Better Together and Yes Scotland campaigns asking them to spell out their policies for Scotland’s 1.04 million older people.
NPC general secretary Dot Gibson said: “It would be completely wrong to keep this information back until after the vote had been taken.
“Scottish pensioners have a right to know what sort of state pension they are going to get, how much it will be, whether or not it will go up each year, whether their occupational pensions are safe and if they are going to keep their winter fuel allowance and free bus pass.”
A Better Together spokesperson said: “Scottish pensioners deserve honest answers about the impact of separation on their pensions. Scots who have worked hard all their working lives now find their pensions at risk, as John Swinney’s leaked paper and the SNP’s own expert panel admit.
“The only way to guarantee that we continue to pool our pension resources is to keep the UK.”
A spokesperson for Yes Scotland said: “Detailed policy proposals are for the political parties to articulate, but we see enormous potential to build a fairer pensions system in an independent Scotland.”