Not every pensioner gets pension credits and they cost such a lot for the government to administer that it's not worth it," she says.
Of course, getting pensioners to do this work could lead to an increase in farmers' costs.
It simply subsidises local public transport services, keeping transport workers in jobs and boosting the local economy by getting pensioners out and about and keeping them healthy.
A Conservative cabinet minister suggested getting pensioners to pick fruit and vegetables below the minimum wage instead of hiring Bulgarians and Romanians at the legal rate, a former Lib Dem coalition colleague has claimed.
Rumour has it that George Osborne has an exciting new idea to get pensioners out collecting litter from motorways, then fashioning it into sculptures that they sell by the roadside – but the proceeds from that are urgently required to fund "fruit baskets of welcome" for non-doms.
When I can give up the day job and get a pensioner's pass for the buses and trains, I shall seek out any remaining outground cricket and travel to watch this unique form of the greatest of games.
How many colorectal cancer survivors return to work, stay at sickness absence, get unemployed or become pensioners in the years following diagnosis?
The average Detroit pensioner gets $19,000 a year.
The average Detroit pensioner gets $19,000 a year – the cut would leave them with $3,040.
One of the most cited statistics comes from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, showing that the median Greek retiree takes home 95.7 percent of his or her last salary, while the German pensioner gets only 43 percent.
