The state pension cost an estimated £146bn a year in 2025, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The think-tank believes the triple lock could help push the expense up by as much as £40bn in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...