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Originally Posted by Pierre
I don’t know your circumstances, nor do I want to. But as bad as that payment you received was, you’re not seriously telling me that you think the state pension is a lot of money.
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Ideally, we could make the pension bigger but it went up £900 this year. How much more do you think it's realistic to expect to increase? Next year it'll be around £400.
It increases more than wages and more than any other benefit - most of which have been cut relative to inflation over the past decade. Longer term it's not sustainable if the state pension keeps outgrowing earnings. I think we probably need to look at doing something about the triple-lock when we reach parity with the average pension of some of the EU nations.