Can't go on for ever, or can it?

[stevewool]

Will it stay forever or will it not.
The triple lock Guarantee for Pensions well it seems like it may not be a guarantee for the future.
But as there are millions o folk who never get a pay rise all year so why should the pensioners get this amount every year, somethings have to come to a end.


http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews...PCZ?li=BBoPRmx

[Arthur Little]

Will it stay forever or will it not.
The triple lock Guarantee for Pensions well it seems like it may not be a guarantee for the future.
But as there are millions o folk who never get a pay rise all year so why should the pensioners get this amount every year, somethings have to come to a end.


http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews...PCZ?li=BBoPRmx

Tbh ... ... I'm not really aware of what a triple~lock guarantee is.

[Longweekend]

Here you go Arthur...

The triple lock was introduced by the coalition in 2010 and was a guarantee to increase the state pension every year by the higher of inflation, average earnings or a minimum of 2.5%.

[stevewool]

So if it went up 1% instead of the 2.5% would all the pensioner's by happy.
As like anything in life you have the rich pensioners and the poor ones, some will still be fine and others will not.

[bigmarco]

Let's continue to guarantee our pensioners 2.5% increase every year and instead close some of the loopholes for tax dodgers.

[Longweekend]

[Arthur Little]

Here you go Arthur...

The triple lock was introduced by the coalition in 2010 and was a guarantee to increase the state pension every year by the higher of inflation, average earnings or a minimum of 2.5%.

... you have just jogged my memory; I can now recall having submitted a thread about the views of some interfering busybody of a Baroness (whom I'd never previously heard of) - on this subject - last summer:

http://filipinaroses.com/showthread....+Lock+Pensions

Although, I don't think you