#BBCNews Why are we even considering scrapping the #TripleLock? #Pensioners contributed all their lives, as a percentage of pay, so inflation-adjusted. It's crazy that #StatePension is paid from current money. We need to set up and pay #pensions from a Sovereign Fund and respect our senior citizens

🚨 #Pensions #TripleLock ⬇️

With the pensions' #triplelock back in the news headlines, it is well worth reading what our Senior Economist Ben Caswell has been proposing to 'solve the issue' - A 'Living Standard' Lock 🔒

Read more here ⤵️

niesr.ac.uk/news/state-p...

It would be morally and electorally wrong to go back to the well of pensioners and scrap the #triplelock - we have the lowest pension in the G7. There are other areas we can get the money from. #WealthTax 1/2

Going after the Triple Lock is not the answer making billionaires and their companies pay the correct taxes is #TripleLock

I’m probably being a bit thick here but why not tax the rich pensioners through their private pensions and properties to pay for the poor pensioners who are trying to live off the state pension alone? #triplelock

" PM holds emergency cabinet as pressure over ending #pension triple lock mounts "

> pressure - not from the Public, but from the Press

> a pension raid NOW would be like Starmer's attack on Winter Fuel Payment for OAPs - disastrous

#TripleLock

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Must we scrap the TL?

Pre-Brexit:
Only one think tank funded by the rich and powerful attacked it. EVERY party defended it.

Then poison arrived. Brexit emptied the coffers.

Solution is reverse Brexit.
Not push those who have paid a lifetime of taxes into poverty.

#UKPol #RejoinEU #TripleLock

The #triplelock will increasingly become unaffordable; based in part on its methodology. The Resolution Foundation's analysis is helpful.
... and I write this as a beneficiary of the triple lock!

#WelfareCrisis #TripleLock #Pensioners #UKLabour

I've seen articles in the Press this year about how the UK's #tripleLock pension r 'unaffordable'.

NOWHERE in our Press have I seen articles about the scandalous fact that UK #pensions are in fact the LOWEST in Western Europe, despite the UK having the sixth largest economy in the entire world.

TRIPLE LOCK PREDICTION
Reporters have been drip-fed the idea that the Triple Lock will go. I think Mr Burnham will announce that it is staying forever - under Labour. I believe it's all a PR setup (and the reporters fell for it).
We will find out later today, won't we?
#andyburnham #triplelock

Suggestions today that the Prime Minister is considering reviewing the #triplelock. This is a divisive issue. At @independentage.bsky.social we would want to see a solid plan to tackle current and future #pensioner #poverty before money is taken away #lab26 #labconf26 #olderpeople #costofliving

This will be the undoing for Andy Burnham…
#TripleLock #Labour