More than 10,000 people have signed an online petition calling for the State Pension to match the National Minimum Wage.
An online petition calling for the State Pension to be increased to £416 each week for everyone over the age of 60, to match the hourly rate of the National Minimum Wage, has received more than 10,000 signatures of support and is now due an official response from the UK Government.
Parliament is in recess until Monday, October 18 so a response to the petition is unlikely to come before then. The petition can be viewed in full on the petitions-parliament website here. The full New State Pension is currently worth £203.85 each week, or £815.40 every four-week pay period - some £10,600 over the 2023/24 financial year. The full Basic State Pension is worth £156.20 each week, some £624.80 every four-week period and over £8,122 over the coming year.
Top Money Stories Today Some 12.6 million older people across Great Britain may be due another bumper State Pension pay rise under the Triple Lock next April after the Office for National Statistics announced that earnings growth for the period between May and July was 8.5 per cent .
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