State Pensions

With the cost of living spiralling, people across the country need certainty about their pensions.

Most pensioners have a fixed income and millions of over 66s depend on the state pension as their primary source of money to buy life’s necessities.

The UK state pension is the worst in the developed world, with nine out of ten older people getting £142 per week or less.

The Triple Lock was introduced to protect the state pension from falling further behind earnings and inflation, as it had done for several decades.

The Lock means that each year the state pension should increase by the higher of prices, earnings or 2.5 per cent.

The Conservatives pledged to maintain the Triple Lock in their 2019 Manifesto, but suspended it, supposedly for one year, in April 2022, citing the unique circumstances of the pandemic. This resulted in a rise of only 3.1 per cent on the state pension in April when inflation was already heading towards 10 per cent.

The Government is contemplating whether to suspend or discard the Triple Lock again, at a time when most older households are struggling to pay their energy and food bills.

The Daily Express has joined the over-60s campaign organisation Silver Voices in launching a petition to persuade the Government to protect and support pensioners, asking the Government to maintain and recommit to the triple lock.

Getting your pension is not a benefit. It’s not something that the DWP are handing out to you because of your age, it’s something that most people paid into while they were working from the age of 16 and pensioners are worth every penny of what they paid in from their hard earnt wages.

UK pensions are one of the lowest in the western developed world and people are now tired of the broken promises by their government.

That’s if people ever get their pensions because people have been chasing theirs for years. Now, this isn’t a social handout, it’s money they have paid into so that they can retire at a reasonable age. Now you have to work till you drop. But this is money that people paid into, it’s NOT a handout by our government, but the government seem to believe that you’re not entitled to it and also has the cheek to put an age limitation on it.

So, what are the government doing with our hard-earned money because they’re definitely not giving it to us, so where’s it gone?

These people have worked hard for over 60 years and have been looking forward to getting their pension so that they don’t freeze to death or go hungry, but our government seem happy to pay out billions on illegal immigration when charity should begin at home, particularly when they’ve contributed for years working.

Now, people who paid into a system from the time they started work, want what they’re owed, and rightly so, it’s their money, not the government’s because essentially the government are stealing their hard-earned money and using it for things that they shouldn’t be using it for.

People have paid into their pensions, but some fool in government has spent the investment money.

Pensions are a disgrace and pensioners are being robbed, and pensioners have worked and contributed all their lives and they deserve their money. It was promised and promises must be kept if the government want its credibility to be seen, and governments that break promises should be disbanded immediately.

The state of this country is not the fault of pensioners who’ve been the spine of the economy for years, and as such, should not be punished for the government’s incompetence.