Age Concern chairman Daphne Minihane, who was speaking at a meeting yesterday calling for GST to be scrapped on food and household heating bills, said that people in Jersey were struggling.
She said that the elderly could not afford funerals, parents could not afford childcare and she had heard that people were walking around without teeth because they could not afford the dentist.
Members of the Senior Citizens Association and Age Concern, who attended the meeting, said that the Institute of Directors’ comments – in support of keeping GST on food and heating – were ‘disgraceful’.
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