In article , Max
Demian writes
On 30/05/2017 18:42, Andy Burns wrote:
Harry Bloomfield wrote:

I understood May was suggesting state
pensions were to be frozen
The original justification for the triple lock, was that pensions
had fallen behind over many years, so they would rise by the highest
of (2.5%, CPI or average earnings increase) now they are said to have
caught up

Caught up with what? The state pension is still not enough to cover
basic expenditure taking housing costs into account.

It's bull****. The state pension is well behind where it would have been
if the link to earnings had not been broken in 1986. The UK state
pension is one of the worst wrt average earnings in the OECD.
--
bert