UK state pension likely to rise by £488 under triple lock

What if you campaigned for benefits of working age people to rise like the state pension instead of pushing for poor pensioners to be more impoverished? Also it is fiscally sustainable if they taxed WEALTH, which means clawing back from wealthy pensioners. Just a thought!

News. It's likely the State Pension will rise by 3.9% next April based on the rise in average earnings that has just been published. This'd take the full new State Pension it to just over £13,000, yet the tax free personal allowance is frozen at £12,570.

The state pension rises by wage growth, inflation, or 2.5%. But the real question: why does a currency issuer tie its own spending to arbitrary formulas instead of setting pensions at subsistence level, period? The UK creates pounds. It can afford dignity. #MMT #Economics #UKPolitics #UKEconomics

Pensioners are NOT big winners, they’ll still be getting half the living wage and less than half the pension the French get. In what way is less than £9 a week a BIG deal? This sort of reporting is grossly misleading. www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

Stories like never mention that only about half of OAPs get the full pension. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No 10 says government still committed to ensuring pensioners only just above tax threshold next year won't pay income tax - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

No, actually pensioners are not "big winners". £13;000 p.a. brings us into the income tax bracket. UK has almost the lowest state pension in Europe. It is a disgrace that people pay their NI contributions and end up eith less than the minimum wage www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

The real living wage (Living Wage Foundation) is £13.45 per hour. The government's so-called 'National Living Wage' is £12.71 per hour. A pension of £13k equates to working full time (37 hours per week) for £6.75 per hour. We should be increasing the state pension. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The questions is not, "how can we afford this", but "why can't we afford this, decent welfare, proper health, social care, and so on" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The BBC opens up the comments section on an article about pensions. And pensioners are quickly targeted by a rabble who think that a £13k pension is too much. State pension likely to top £13,000 a year as UK wage growth slows to 3.9% www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The state pension is above the personal tax allowance threshold. lol. lmao. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scroll down this story to see the incredible sensible, clear and well organised remarks by Jonathan Reynolds, which put the great "ohmygodddd pensions paying tax shuurrrellynot" debate in full context www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

I’m not an economist by any means long stretch, but if you give pensioners more money they will spend it on essentials such as food or heating etc which will then go back into the economy. Looking after people who need looking after isn’t a bad idea? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh, it's "One Of The Lowest State Pensions in Europe But Let's Make UK Pensioners Feel Guily About The Triple Lock Day".

What you never hear in the UK press is how this translates to the lowest pension in Western Europe.