A former DWP employee is warning how this year's Triple Lock uprate will affect some pensioners differently through a 'two-tier system'. Under the Triple Lock guarantee, both the New and Basic State ...

Tom Harwood resents a pensions policy that is both money saving and popular: promise that Pensions will NEVER go down in cash terms; Pensions will NEVER go down in real terms; Pensions will RISE every ...

Paul Ovenden – who was Starmer’s director of strategy in No 10 from July 2024 to September 2025 – said: “We don’t have to ...

The triple lock has resulted in unpredictable and sometimes overly generous increases to the state pension A research institute has called to scrap the triple lock and replace it with a system that ...

Average earnings data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for May to July 2023 showed earnings growth of 8.5 per cent, a figure that will be used to set the state pension increase ...

The state pension triple lock is estimated to cost the government around £15.5 billion by 2030, putting the policy under intense pressure with many industry experts calling for it to be scrapped. From ...

Millions of retirees will not benefit from the state pension triple lock next April - and potentially miss out on a 4.6% uplift - new data suggests. The triple lock ensures that the state pension ...

The DWP has confirmed that millions of pensioners will see a sizeable increase in their payments from April 2026, following the government's ...

At a weekly ballet class in Wokingham, dancers glide elegantly through an intricate series of poses, making it look easy despite ranging in age from 50 to over 80. Figures released on Tuesday, ...