https://birminghamdaily.co.uk/tags/agingpopulation/Recent content in agingpopulation on Birmingham DailyHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usFri, 01 May 2026 04:55:14 +0000https://birminghamdaily.co.uk/dwp-faces-pressure-to-scrap-triple-lock-for-all-state-pensioners/Fri, 01 May 2026 04:55:14 +0000https://birminghamdaily.co.uk/dwp-faces-pressure-to-scrap-triple-lock-for-all-state-pensioners/The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Labour government have been confronted with a strong call to abandon the Triple Lock pension guarantee. Sir Tony Blair’s thinktank, the Tony Blair Institute (TBI), has urged the government to scrap the pledge to maintain the Triple Lock for all state pensioners, citing its growing unaffordability. The Triple Lock policy assures that the basic and new state pensions increase annually by the highest of three measures: inflation, average wage growth, or 2.