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    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The case for retiring Britain’s triple lock on pensions

      Linking payments to earnings growth is fairer and more sustainable

      Older people dancing. The question of how much pensioners ought to be protected is a political one
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      Is the state pension really ‘a Ponzi scheme’?

      The triple lock makes it impossible for government — and individuals — to estimate the cost of retirement

    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      Sunak refuses pensions ‘triple lock’ commitment for Tory manifesto

      Premier risks backlash from MPs fearful of alienating older voters in general election

      Rishi Sunak speaks to the media during the G20 summit in New Delhi
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      UK politics
      UK Treasury braced for 8% rise in pensions because of triple lock

      Retirees’ incomes boosted by more than workers’ as state payment exceeds inflation

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      Moira O'Neill
      A comfortable retirement is being sacrificed for many

      Jeremy Hunt has put saver and investor plans in the deep freeze

      A couple riding bicycles along a waterfront in Lancashire. Many allowances that enable people to plan for their retirement and do sensible things with their money remain frozen, from the inheritance tax threshold to the pension lifetime allowance
    • Friday, 21 October, 2022
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      Lettuce pray for our personal finances

      Future for tax, pensions and energy policy has been tossed into the political salad spinner

    • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      A jubilee year for the state pension?

      Through the generations, women need to ensure they will have cause to celebrate in retirement

    • Friday, 7 January, 2022
      UK politics
      Sunak pressed to boost UK state pensions

      Calls for rethink on suspension of ‘triple lock’ as rising cost of living triggers concern among Tory MPs

      Older woman holds a gas bill.
    • Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
      Lords defeat government over change to UK state pension uplift

      Peers vote to keep ‘triple lock’ despite extra £5bn cost to Treasury, but move faces reversal in Commons

    • Monday, 21 June, 2021
      Downing St vows to stick with pension ‘triple lock’

      No 10 insists committed to pledge despite Treasury concerns on potential £4bn cost of uprating retirement payments

    • Friday, 10 July, 2020
      Buy-to-let
      Stamp duty holiday boosts buy-to-let landlords

      Property investors set to benefit from tax savings announced in the chancellor’s summer statement

    • Friday, 15 May, 2020
      Income tax
      Tax: how we will pay for the pandemic measures

      Previous manifesto promises could be broken and unpopular decisions made as the UK’s budget deficit mounts

    • Friday, 23 November, 2018
      UK state pension ‘should be means tested’

      International Monetary Fund calls for review of universal benefit

      KN4HGT COMPANY PENSION PAY ADVICE SLIPS WITH RED PAPER CLIP RE WORKPLACE PENSIONS COMPANY SCHEMES PENSIONS UK
    • Thursday, 18 October, 2018
      Pensions
      Pensions lifetime allowance set to rise to £1.05m

      State pension payments likely to increase by 2.6 per cent

      HYTHE, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 28: An elderly couple stroll on the sea front in early morning on September 28, 2008 in Hythe, England. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2017
      State pension
      State pension triple lock to remain after Tory-DUP deal

      Plan to means test winter fuel payments also scrapped

      Padlock
    • Friday, 9 June, 2017
      Currencies
      What the election result means for your money

      How your investments and personal finances could be affected

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2017
      Q&AState pension
      UK election: what is the future for state pension triple lock?

      Conservatives fail to guarantee future for retirement income rises

      Lock on a screen. More>>
    • Sunday, 30 April, 2017
      State pension
      Theresa May hints at scrapping tax and pensions locks

      PM signals she will change Cameron’s flagship policy if she wins election

      Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May attends the BBC's Marr Show in London, Britain April 30, 2017. Jeff Overs/BBC Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
    • Saturday, 29 April, 2017
      John McTernan
      How to think differently about the grey vote

      Older people are missing from the election debate where they matter most

      Voters arrive at The Willows Primary School polling station in Stoke as voting gets underway in the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday February 23, 2017. See PA story POLITICS Byelections. Photo credit should read: Joe Giddens/PA Wire
    • Saturday, 29 April, 2017
      State pension
      Triple lock traps Theresa May between pensions and polls

      The PM’s choice — retiree anger or tackling cost and imbalance

      Pensioners walk on a footpath in Sellin, Ruegen Island, Germany, on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016. Germany's Bundesbank said raising the legal retirement age to 69 by 2060 could ease some of the pressure on the country’s state pension system as the population ages. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
    • Thursday, 27 April, 2017
      UK public finances
      Theresa May urged to break promise not to raise taxes

      Former Treasury head says revenue and pension locks will mean permanent deficit

      CEFHF9 HM REVENUE AND CUSTOMS TAX CODE INFORMATION LEAFLET WITH BRITISH POUND COINS RE TAXATION WAGES INCOMES SALARY LIVING COSTS UK
    • Thursday, 27 April, 2017
      State pension
      UK should scrap state pension for the rich, says OECD

      Taking benefits from top 5-10% would free cash for poor, senior director argues

    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2017
      UK politics opinion polls
      Theresa May refuses to commit to pensions ‘triple lock’

      Policy ensures state pension rises by highest of CPI, earnings growth or 2.5%

      A still image taken from footage broadcast by the UK Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) on April 26, 2017 shows British Prime Minister Theresa May speaking during the weekly Prime Ministers Questions session in the House of Commons in London. The British prime minister attended the final Prime Ministers Questions session of the Parliament before the June 8 general election. / AFP PHOTO / PRU / Handout / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO / PRU " - NO USE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, SATIRICAL, MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSHANDOUT/AFP/Getty Images
    • Sunday, 23 April, 2017
      The FT ViewState pension
      Theresa May should drop the state pension ‘triple lock’

      The UK prime minister has the electoral freedom to tackle policy injustices

      Britain's Prime Minster Theresa May delivers a stump speech at Netherton Conservative Club during the Conservative Party's election campaign, in Dudley April 22, 2017.   REUTERS/Chris Radburn/Pool
    • Friday, 21 April, 2017
      Q&ATax
      Election 2017 and what it means for your money

      The key battlegrounds on investments, tax, pensions and property

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