A draft law to unravel the triple lock is ready for Tánaiste Simon Harris to bring to cabinet, amid a claim that Ireland’s ...

The annual rise in state pension will be a welcome boost income but the driving factor behind it may have an uncertain future ...

The triple lock, a system that has guaranteed steady increases in state pensions, is being scrapped for thousands of ...

Labour has committed to the triple lock for this Parliament, which it says will boost payments by up to £1,900 a year.

The triple lock is unsustainable and must be scrapped, a pensions expert is warning. Kevin Hollister, a pensions actuary and ...

A former minister with the Liberal Democrats and Conservative Party coalition who was responsible for ushering in the Triple ...

Pensions provider Aegon said the triple lock harms “intergenerational fairness” and was “not sustainable” as it would mean pensioners getting higher increases than average wage growth over time, while ...

The Triple Lock inventor has broken his silence over the system the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ) could REPLACE the mechanism with. Sir Steve Webb, who was responsible for implementing the ...

In 2011, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government implemented Triple Lock, and 14 years later the mechanism is still standing strong. However, some experts predict its time is nearly ...

The triple lock – the mechanism by which the state pension is increased by the highest of average earnings, inflation or 2.5 per cent – has become one of the most sacred of political cows ...

Sir Steve Webb, who served as pensions minister in the coalition government, thinks there is still a case for persevering with the measure.