The state pension cost an estimated £146bn a year in 2025, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The think-tank believes the triple lock could help push the expense up by as much as £40bn in ...

The latest triple lock boost will force hundreds of thousands more pensioners to pay "retirement tax" on their state pension as the payments are set to rise by 4.8%. While pensioners will get a ...

Britain's state pension triple lock is set to cost three times as much as originally expected by the end of the decade as the ageing population piles further pressure on public finances. Figures from ...

The end of the triple lock pension could come as soon as 2030 due to the increasing cost to the public purse, experts have warned. Politicians will likely have to scrap their commitment to the lock at ...

And it is worse still for the young. The latest NEET figures (16–24-year-olds) show that for the UK in July to September 2025, 238,000 young men were unemployed (130,000 young women) and 274,000 were ...