The pension age may rise to 68 to pay for the triple lock, a commitment to increase pensions by whichever is highest of average increase in wages, inflation measures by the Consumer Prices Index OR 2.5%. The PM is committed to the policy costing £49B if the Tories win the GE!
@AnnJohn30914404 The state pension should e means-tested. The country can’t afford to pay benefits to everyone just because they reach a certain age.
@vonmuf We paid into it all our working lives, it is ours by right
@vonmuf @AnnJohn30914404 It's not a benefit, it's a pension. You pay for it through national INSURANCE. If the state can't pay for it, it should reform tax and put and end to tax avoidance and evasion, which costs the UK tens of billions a year.
@vonmuf @AnnJohn30914404 You can afford to pay for never ending wars. You can give billions to Ukraine. Leave the OAP alone they have worked all there lives you bully
@vonmuf @AnnJohn30914404 No it shouldn’t be means tested We pay for our state pension by working the equivalent of 34 years full time The state pension in the UK is one of the worst in Europe
@vonmuf @AnnJohn30914404 What this country can't afford is over 800 Lords on £360 a DAY plus expenses, and MPs mostly Tory claiming four times their salary in expenses, also Nuclear weapons no one will ever use, and yet they will always find the money for all of these.
@vonmuf @AnnJohn30914404 The state Pension eh? 1909, 1925, 1946 & 2016 are key dates for the interested in pensions and how it arose. Educate yourselves,then come back.
@vonmuf @AnnJohn30914404 It should be means tested in your case only. It seems you wouldn't object.
@vonmuf @AnnJohn30914404 No it bloody shouldn’t, we all contribute to the state pension via NI, if this country really wants to start saving money then we should look to means testing MP’s expenses or just get rid of them all together!
@vonmuf @AnnJohn30914404 Yes, the country can afford to pay benefits to everyone when they reach a certain age. Of course it can. Where is the £7 billion to fund Ukraine's war effort come from? Where the billions for the US state to rebuild the Baltimore bridge? Watch this. youtube.com/watch?v=WS9nP-…