u.k. insolvency service findings highlight how seriously those over sixty five struggling to keep their homes running as costs rise as artie's or any reports of most people's budgets have already been cut to the. retirement depicted as a golden age where older people get more time to enjoy their families and hobbies but a new survey shows a different side of old age in britain a worrying picture of a country where more and more elderly people can't afford to retire pensioner lydia portsmouth will say how much money she gets from the state but she's forced to dip into her limited savings to pay her monthly bills like many others she wasn't able to push away a lot of money for her retirement and what she does have is now earning so little interest in the bank that she regularly has to spend the capital that money going if you know that. a bit to try and make out the money that come in because nothing done back in again and it's getting lower and lower in the end i would have to fill that. lydia is one of the lucky ones she owns her own home and has a small amount of savings but data from the of