{"id":248798,"date":"2025-07-08T19:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248798\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T19:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:35:11","slug":"what-is-the-triple-lock-and-how-much-is-the-state-pension-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248798\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the triple lock and how much is the state pension worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/winter-fuel-payment\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">winter fuel payment, external<\/a> was previously paid to all pensioners to help with energy costs during the coldest period of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In July 2024, the government said it would change the rules for the winter fuel payment in England and Wales from the next winter. The governments in Scotland and Northern Ireland said they would have to follow Westminster. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said only those on pension credit or other means-tested benefits are eligible for the winter fuel payment, which is worth either \u00a3200 or and \u00a3300, depending on your circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The changes meant that more than 10 million pensioners did not receive a winter fuel payment in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several charities, unions, and MPs criticised the decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In June 2025, after much speculation<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn4gnk7g228o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the government announced a U-turn which means winter fuel payments will now go to around nine million pensioners in England and Wales <\/a>with an annual income of \u00a335,000 or less. That&#8217;s about 75% of pensioners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the government would &#8220;continue to means-test this payment so that it is targeted and fair, rather than restoring eligibility to everyone including the wealthiest&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rules will also change again in the rest of the UK. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winter fuel payment, external was previously paid to all pensioners to help with energy costs during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,474,2499,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-248798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-personal-finance","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114819296455118089","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}