The long-term sustainability of the pensions triple-lock has been called into question yet again after new figures showed an extra 220,000 people were receiving the state pension. According to ...

A pensions timebomb is ticking on the Isle of Man and the self-governing island off the UK's west coast came very close to defusing it last week. Like the UK, the island protects state pensions ...

Both Labour and Conservative politicians loathe the triple lock but fear the consequences of acting on that. Call it the hate that dare not speak its name. MPs know voters won’t forgive whoever ...

The state pension triple lock could be means-tested under a future Tory government, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has suggested. Speaking on an LBC phone-in, she said that, while her party had ...

The triple lock – the mechanism by which the state pension is increased by the highest of average earnings, inflation or 2.5 per cent – has become one of the most sacred of political cows ...

After Kemi Badenoch admitted the state pension could be in the Conservatives' sights, we ask - do you think the triple lock should be means tested? The Tory leader's comments came in response to a ...

The triple lock is unsustainable and must be scrapped, a pensions expert is warning. Kevin Hollister, a pensions actuary and founder of Guiide, says the triple lock "makes no economic sense" - and ...

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This is due to the ‘triple lock’ formula that dictates pensions should increase each April by the highest of three measures: – 2.5% (the minimum increase) – the rate of inflation in the ...

Like the UK, the island protects state pensions with the triple lock, which automatically increases the state pension each year by the maximum of three measures: price inflation, average earnings ...