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   @user-sz3wt5tv2s

   January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

   I worked from 1968 until 2017 never 'claiming' from the State during that time. But the fact is it is the poLIEtical 'class' who continually make a mess of the British Economy Wasting Billions every year who are at fault…..and remember the Billions of Taxpayers money, including mine, that was used to Bail out the Poor Old Banks and keep them Solvent….there was plenty of money available to do that….right ?

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   @MinkieWinkle

   January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

   Government can not afford state pension, their own ponzi scheme is now crashing.

   I see the state pension in the future, either having a cut off, say If born after this x y or z date. then you will not get state pension, OR i see it being means tested. there simply is not enough money to pay for it.

   For your own sakes, please do not intend on relying on the state pension, pay into your own pension, out side of the governments fiscal ineptitude, you will regret ever relying on the government for anything

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   @stuartr7832

   January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

   Truth bombs the Government dont want you to know .
   The Uk pension is the losest in the western world.
   Most get a measly and pittifull £156 a week.
   This can be topped up with a means tested benefit called pensions credit. This means responsible people who saved and planned ther pension get nothing. If you wasted every penny of your salary znd saved nothkng then your tjiusands and thousands richer. Clear lesson here . Dont have a private pension and save nothing

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   @stephengreen2626

   January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

   As a pensioner, I am happy with the lower wage calculation. Any pensioner who doesn’t know that they are better off than people on low wages is ignorant and ditto that they will receive more than future pensioners.

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5. 

   @aficio698

   January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

   We can afford to fund wars around the world but not look after our own. A political choice.

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   @stevanharrison

   January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

   It’s not complicated. Everyone benefits eventually.

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   @nevrobinson8530

   January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

   How strange that all these people condemning the triple lock are not even pensioners.

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8. 

   @yamyam3905

   January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

   The pensions are getting expensive but £8million a day on immigrants that have never paid a penny in isnt getting expensive 🤷‍♂️ ?

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   @Mr19541217

   January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

   Have to increase state pension age for 70-75. After everybody have to live from private work pension and spend their saved money for private dentists and doctors. And the government can save all the money. But would be the life better? Sure not!
   Wealthy pensioners doesn't need state pension or triple lock, but the rest ones they need more than triple lock! We can't live without war and weapons! But can we live without any pensioners?

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10. 

    @allanchurm

    January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

    the british pension is very.very low ..when the government have frozen the tax codes we pay tax on our pensions.
    8.5% is sod all rise when its so low and everything is going up in price.
    all the government had to do was to separate the cost of elctrivity/gas for the home and busines and drop the vat on it as the top price of gas sets the price we have to pay
    RUSHI will not do that as he get billions extra in vat from the increase in fuel. A TOTAL SELF CENTRED MAN dedicated to robing the lower level population.
    rushi stop giveing billions away through gifts and camerons law and start to look after our own people

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11. 

    @jonh9561

    January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

    The story with British State Pensions gets much worse if you move abroad to a country that does not have a reciprocal welfare payments agreement with the UK, which means that the UK will refuse to 'uprate' (index-link) your pension so that it does not rise in line with inflation, even though you will have paid annual increases in contributions. After around 17 to 20 years, the purchasing power of these pensions is reduced by around 50%. The Department of Work and Pensions will not tell you about this, unless you ask them direct and most people only become aware of this once they reach the UK's retirement age and claim their pensions. There UK government refuses to change its policy on this and is indifferent to the increasing amounts of grinding poverty that directly affects around 500,000 pensioners that live outside of the UK. This policy is discriminatory, immoral and tantamount to theft.

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    @DomenicNicosia-bs8qd

    January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

    Lowest pension in Europe and now they want to decrease or stop the triple lock the Tories have already done this when Boris was PM now Sunak want to lower the pension increases yet again this will cost the Tories the next election that for sure .

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13. 

    @davidc7759

    January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

    Cancel the Triple Lock and give bigger bonuses to the Civil Service to cover their extra tea cost for working from home.

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    @DungeonKeeperLondonDungeonHire

    January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

    The triple lock is fair but only if it is also applied to minimum wage each year as well.

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15. 

    @Doomedcreatures

    January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

    poeple want lower taxes.. unless the tax money goes to them hah

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    @slapshot0074

    January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

    I will never fathom the justification of people wishing to ruin others pensions. You work all your life only to have idiots begrudge your (not exactly enormous) pension and try to find ways to make it worse. Utterly disgraceful. Yet another classic case of distraction and diversion. Successive governments have run the UK into ground, squandered money on an epic scale to various areas that the public doesn't endorse but no, the problem is the temerity of old people to still be alive and how dare they be a "burden" on the public purse? Get real.

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17. 

    @kilgoretrout413

    January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

    Anyone who voted Brexit should have their benefits stripped

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    @kilgoretrout413

    January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

    The elderly have ruined this once great country- f—- em

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19. 

    @MCHOKUM

    January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

    Yes! There will be no state pension without the triple lock!

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    @glennrobinson8385

    January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

    How many billions ar we wasting on Ukraine, Boat Migrants, and the house of Lords and you want to cut back a pension that people have been building up through out their working life PATHETIC

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    @JezmondoMisterfull

    January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

    There may not be many millionaire pensioners drinking from the water hole, but there will be many reasonably wealthy pensioners who own their own homes, paid off mortgages, etc who don't need a state pension. Linking to inflation and some sort of means test is the way forward. That way the people who really need it, get it, and the pot doesn't need to be so big because it's not just paid to everyone of pension age!

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22. 

    @isette

    January 14, 2024 at 12:26 am

    Remember we all get old and need help .

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