A formal decision will be made
People receiving the state pension could be about to benefit from a new government policy. That's because Therese Coffey - the Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions - hinted pensioners will be set for an increase that matches soaring inflation.
"I do recognise the average income of pensioners is very low.” She defended plans to rise the state pension in line with inflation while public sector workers are likely to face real-terms cuts.She told the BBC's Sunday Morning show: "We are going back to our policy of the triple lock, we suspended it for one year because freakish statistics would have given pensioners a particularly odd earnings relation in terms of rises.
"So potentially a 10% rise or matching inflation, whatever the appropriate rate would be at the time ... would be, I think, a measured approach recognising that their opportunity for people to earn more income is very limited, if possible at all."
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