READ MORE Some drivers face \u00a3340 bill in ‘even steeper’ UK pay-per-mile car tax band<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n“Britain’s basic State Pension is currently \u00a3176.45 per week. Britain’s New State Pension is currently \u00a3230.25 a week. Britain’s average weekly earnings (AWE) were estimated at \u00a3722 in March 2025, by the Office for National Statistics.”<\/p>\n
The petition has been backed by 358 signatures – with 10,000 signatures required to get a government response and at 100,000 signatures, this petition will be considered for debate in Parliament.<\/p>\n
The petition, created by Michael Thompson, has a deadline of 13 December 2025. All petitions run for 6 months.<\/p>\n
The \u2018old\u2019 State Pension refers to the contributory state retirement pension system in place for people who reached State Pension age before 6 April 2016: men born before 6 April 1951; and women born before 6 April 1953.<\/p>\n
The old State Pension has two tiers: the basic State Pension (BSP) and the additional State Pension \u2013 which depended on the earnings or deemed earnings during their working life since 1978.<\/p>\n
People built up entitlement through the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme (SERPS) between 1978 and 2002, and the State Second Pension (S2P) from 2002 onwards.<\/p>\n
The pre-April 2016 system is \u2018old\u2019 because the \u2018new\u2019 single-tier State Pension was introduced for people reaching State Pension age from 6 April 2016 onwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An online petition on the Parliamentary website has called on the DWP to introduce a big state pension…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,1267,474,2499,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-572004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dwp","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-personal-finance","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115553749689004855","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572004","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=572004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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DWP told to ‘abolish’ Basic State Pension and give New rate to ‘all’<\/p>\n