Pensioners will have to pay more for bus passes if Basildon Council goes ahead with its plan to cut its subsidy.
If the executive board rubber-stamps the new guidelines, 65 to 69-year-olds will have to pay £150, getting £54 subsidy, and over 70s will get £84 subsidy and pay £105. Women between 60 and 65 would have to pay the full price of £223.
However, means testing would be scrapped.
Published Tuesday, January 14, 2003
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