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They have a policy on medals for people who have served in the armed forces but not on pensions.

And yet UKIP's electoral base is made up largely of over 60s - so you'd think the party would have a carefully tailored set of policy proposals to pamper their core supporters. Ipsos Mori found that only 13% of their supporters are aged under 35, the lowest of any other party.

55% of UKIP supporters are aged 55+, the highest of any major party Ipsos Mori

Leaving it to the wire

"We currently haven't announced one" UKIP's Jack Duffin told us. "We'll be announcing it at the party conference in Margate in February."

"No party has released their election manifesto yet", he added. So it should be no big surprise that we have no idea as of yet what their pensions proposals are.

Except we know where other parties stand on pensions! UKIP have had five years - why are they leaving it to the last 15 weeks before the elections?

Their 2014 manifesto, released ahead of the European Parliamentary Election, also lacks any mention of pensions.

"We got very scared and ran away"

When Tim Aker, their head of policy and MEP for for the East of England, was asked in August about public sector pensions and what he party was planning to do with them, he famously said:

"I have, and then got very scared and ran away.”

He then added: "We haven’t looked into it.”

Their last pensions proposal was published FIVE YEARS AGO

The party’s main pension proposals were set out in a report issued exactly five years ago, authored by UKIP's old pensions policy group, made up of the then MEP Godfrey Bloom, the late David Lamb and Mark Wadsworth.

They are no longer prominent members of the party.

David Lamb died of a brain tumor in 2011, while Mark Wadsworth left the party two and a half years ago because he disagreed with the party's economic stance. He said Ukip was relying on "Home-Owner-ism" to heal the UK’s economic malaise:

a "vague belief that we can sort things out by bailing out banks, preventing new construction, cutting council tax and generally doing everything possible to prop up land prices and the credit bubble, thus making it difficult or expensive for the next generation to enjoy what the Baby Boomers had".

"The damage wrought on our economy and our society by Home-Owner-Ism", he added, "is far, far greater than that caused by the UK's membership of the EU."

A "Citizen's pension" of a meagre £130 a week

So what did UKIP's old pensions policy group come up with in 2010? Here are their key proposals:

UKIP would roll all existing State pensions, Pensions Credit, the Winter Fuel Allowance into a flat-rate non-means tested, non-contributory and non-taxable “Citizen’s Pension” of £130 per week for all pensioners aged 65 and over.

UKIP would scrap the statutory Pension Protection Fund and the National Pensions Savings Scheme (i.e. NEST) because "they are costly and counter-productive"

UKIP would also reduce the annual limit for tax relievable pension contributions to £10,000 gross and reinstate the dividend tax credit at 20%.

Pensioners would be at least £18 a week worse off

If those proposals still stand, £130 a week would leave everyone a LOT worse off, with no fuel allowance and £18.40 a week less than the New Pension.

The other points also raise problematic questions. For example, the Pension Protection Fund protects vulnerable pensioners in case those who provide their private pension go bust. If UKIP still intends to scrap it they would need to provide a replacement.

But more importantly, considering the radical changes that the pensions system has undergone in the past five years, it's surprising the party has said so little about something that matters so much to the majority of their core supporters.

Next month we'll find out whether these proposals still stand.