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19th May 2017MikeR commented on:
Has Theresa May got the right financial balance for pensioners?I don't live in the UK now so my comments are based on an expat getting the full UK state pension. My pension is around £160 a week, I also get the yearly increase. If we lived in the UK and had no other income or savings above the limit me and my wife would get close to double as we would be entitled to additional help. Keeping the triple lock for UK state pensions should be continued to ensure pensions keep up with inflation, this is in question though. More needs doing to make people take out private pensions and save for their retirement, to many are just relying on the state pension to live on, which is clearly not enough hence the top up. Taking money from those pensioners that have saved and invested in private pensions is not the way to go, it takes away the incentive to be self reliant.