Pension Tension: End of the Triple Lock?
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The state pension is likely to rise by 8.5% in April because of the ‘triple lock’. The policy means that the value increases in line with average earnings, inflation or 2.5% - whichever is highest. Adam and Chris are joined by our Economics Editor Faisal Islam and Jonathan Cribb from the Institute for Fiscal Studies to explore the ramifications.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, and hello to economic editor of Faisal Islam. |
| 0:08.2 | Hello. |
| 0:09.2 | Do you have a name for the kind of day you've had |
| 0:11.1 | where there's just a huge dump of economic data? |
| 0:14.0 | It's like every day. |
| 0:15.8 | In the day that was extra. |
| 0:17.1 | There was extra. |
| 0:18.1 | No, there was. |
| 0:18.9 | And it was all slightly going in different directions |
| 0:20.7 | at the same time. |
| 0:21.7 | There was a theme for this that Mervyn King, |
| 0:23.4 | the former economic governor, once called it disco dancing |
| 0:26.5 | data, all going in random directions |
| 0:28.6 | and no clear pattern. |
| 0:30.4 | And this was your own dancing. |
| 0:32.5 | This felt like this. |
| 0:33.8 | Exactly. |
| 0:34.8 | Exactly. |
| 0:36.2 | So yes, kind of, that was what it felt like today. |
| 0:40.3 | But there is one figure in particular |
| 0:41.8 | that has kind of leapt out and to the top of the news agenda. |
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