State pension to rise tomorrow as ‘insulting’ increase hits vulnerable households The state pension is a weekly payment from the government that you receive when you reach state pension age. How much you could get is going up by 3.1% by experts say this isn’t enough to beat the cost of living crisi

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  2. It’s only slightly less that the average wage rise (3.8-4.8% depending on how you count it) and for people who generally don’t have to support children or pay a mortgage, doesn’t seem too bad to me. The next rise is predicted to be over 7%, which seems like it could be good.

    I have no doubt that there are some who still need help, they should access Pension Credit and any other support.

    Times are rough for all of us and I am really struggling to sympathise with a group who overwhelmingly vote Tory, voted Brexit, and so are responsible for this. (Yes, there will be individual exceptions just like any group.)

  5. They are literally the wealthiest generation, if anything they should be paying more to balance out all the sacrifices the young made on their behalf, the young who already have far fewer opportunities than todays pensioners had to build wealth.

  6. Maybe, just maybe, they should have voted and called for the creation of a national pension fund. Hypothetically you could have used the discovery of a wealth bringing natural resource in the late 20th century to create it. Then they’d not have to rely upon an abstract government fund.

  11. Maybe their generation should have paid something in during their lifetimes? Or maybe they should sell the houses they give themselves and spend some of the equity? But after a lifetime wingeing and taking out more than you put in change is hard…

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