When you live in poverty, lack food, don't have money for clothes or a decent roof over your head or to get the one you have repaired, among other things, physical health and psychological health take a hit. Ultimately, this ends up driving up the costs to the health care system and community organizations, among others.
Have the direct, indirect and induced impacts of not increasing the pension for seniors aged 65 to 74 who fail to support themselves until they reach 75 and get their 10% supplement been calculated?