The UK currently spends 4.9 per cent of GDP on state pensions — well below the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and ...

The triple lock, which came into force in 2011, means that the state pension rises each year in line with either inflation, ...

The future of the state pension is under the spotlight again. Fresh calls to scrap the triple lock guarantee have raised ...

Economists said a stark forecast by the watchdog predicting a tripling in the national debt in the coming decades made reform ...

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecast that the triple lock will cost £15.5bn annually by 2029-30, three times ...

The triple lock, introduced in 2011, means the state pension rises each year by the highest of inflation, wage growth, or 2.5 ...

A petition to Parliament is demanding the state pension increase to the equivalent of 48 hours a week at the National Living ...

Britain’s state pension could become financially unsustainable as early as 2036, despite recent increases in National ...

The state pension age is already set to rise to 68 in the coming decades, but it would need to reach 74 by 2069 to keep ...

The OBR is being far too optimistic in its assumptions about productivity growth in the UK – meaning the scale of the country ...

To qualify for the full new state pension, one typically requires 35 years' worth of National Insurance contributions. The ...

The planned change to the official age of retirement has been in legislation since 2014 with a further State Pension age rise ...