{"id":470181,"date":"2026-05-05T21:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/470181\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:57:15","slug":"martin-lewis-sets-out-simple-pension-formula-for-retirement-saving-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/470181\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Lewis sets out simple pension formula for retirement saving | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martin Lewis<\/a> has shared the pension<\/a> \u201crule of thumb\u201d when it comes to saving for your retirement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During a pension special of The Martin Lewis Money Show on Tuesday (5 May), the financial guru took a question from a viewer called Daryl, who asked what a person should be paying into their pension. <\/p>\n

He said: \u201cLet me give you the rule of thumb that scares the pants of everybody. Take the age when you start putting into your pension, so in your case 30, halve it, that\u2019s 15 ,and that’s how much of your income you want going in for the rest of your life for a decent retirement<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThe earlier you start, the better retirement you are going to have.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Lewis has shared the pension \u201crule of thumb\u201d when it comes to saving for your retirement. During…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[176496,28691,206279,79,196316,27125,206278,18,206277,789,19,17,54520,27980,194887,234,235,432,86065,206274,196318,4335,196315,383,119,196314,177982,206275,49898,206276,206280],"class_list":{"0":"post-470181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-antonin-kinsky","9":"tag-atletico-madrid","10":"tag-bestpix","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-club-soccer","13":"tag-color-image","14":"tag-eight-finals","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-first-leg","17":"tag-horizontal","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-julian-alvarez","21":"tag-madrid","22":"tag-match-sport","23":"tag-personal-finance","24":"tag-personalfinance","25":"tag-photography","26":"tag-sadness","27":"tag-scoring","28":"tag-scoring-a-goal","29":"tag-soccer","30":"tag-soccer-player","31":"tag-spain","32":"tag-sport","33":"tag-sports-team","34":"tag-stadium","35":"tag-tottenham-hotspur-f-c","36":"tag-uefa-champions-league","37":"tag-union-of-european-football-associations","38":"tag-wanda-metropolitano"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116524210315220518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}