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The Latest Breaking News on State Pension petition calling for £416 weekly payments due official response

State Pension petition calling for £416 weekly payments due official response

Campaigners are calling for pensioners to be paid the equivalent of the national minimum wage

Liverpool Echo

Full list of DWP revised weekly payment rates for 2023

State support for individuals rising to keep pace with inflation

The Independent UK

All of the benefits, pensions and cost of living payments going out in February

More state support will be paid out as millions continue to struggle this winter

The Independent UK

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All of the benefits, pensions and cost of living payments going out in February

More state support will be paid out as millions continue to struggle this winter

The Independent UK

New State Pension petition calling for £416 weekly payment for everyone over 60 due official response

The petition also proposes rolling back retirement age from 66 to 60 and has received more than 22,800 signatures of support.

Daily Record

Making Scots work longer is not the answer to looming state pension crisis

While the number of pensioners is set to rise, stripping people of their benefits until they are even older is not the solution, writes Record View.

Daily Record

UK state pension age could soon rise to 68 forcing millions of Scots to work longer

SNP MP David Linden described the reports as "the latest in a long line of attacks from the Tories on the UK's state pension".

Daily Record

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Westminster Tories planning 'scandalous' hike to UK pension age in next decade

THE TORIES are planning to raise the retirement age in the UK to 68 by the end of the 2030s, reports have said.

The National (Scotland)

‘National Care Covenant needed in radical overhaul of broken social care system’

The Archbishops’ Commission said “piecemeal tinkering with the existing system will not produce the desired result”.

The Independent UK

Full list of DWP revised weekly payment rates for 2023

State support for individuals rising to keep pace with inflation

The Independent UK

New calls to increase State Pension to £416 each week and lower retirement age back to 60

The proposed weekly increase would give older people an annual income of at least £21,673.60.

Daily Record

Jeremy Hunt led calls for big pay rise for NHS nurses last summer

Chancellor, as chair of select committee, signed off report saying it was ‘unacceptable’ that nurses were struggling to feed families

The Guardian - UK

DWP State Pension payment increases confirmed including Pension Credits and Attendance Allowance

The payments will rise by more than 10% - this is what they will be

Wales Online

Social care staff in Scotland 'leaving to work in Costa and Lidl' due to higher wages, Nicola Sturgeon warned

The Scottish Labour leader told MSPs there was already a recruitment crisis in care homes with 75 per cent reporting job vacancies.

Daily Record

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Liverpool Echo

DWP PIP, Universal Credit and other benefit payments set to increase as new weekly rates unveiled

The rates will rise in line with inflation

Bristol Post

The exact amount state pensioners need to have a 'comfortable' retirement

Despite the state pension being set to rise by 10.1% in April, many are feeling anxious

Glasgow Live

Exact amount State Pensioners need for 'comfortable retirement' ahead of April rise

The exact amount needed for state pensioners to have a comfortable retirement has increased in the last years due to a rise in the cost of living crisis and comes as Martin Lewis confirmed a rise in energy prices in a few months time.

The Independent UK

How much will the UK state pension increase in 2023?

Jeremy Hunt reinstated ‘triple lock’ in Autumn Statement and pledged increase in line with CPI measure of inflation to provide boost amid cost of living crisis

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Daily Record

State Pension payments are rising to more than £815 each month for millions of older people in April

Full details on the changes to weekly and monthly payment rates for those on the Old and New State Pension.

Daily Record

Half a million older people will not get new State Pension payment rates starting in April

State Pension payments are rising by up to £75 per month in the new financial year.

The Independent UK

UK government meeting unions in bid to end wave of strikes

British government ministers are meeting trade union leaders in a bid to end a wave of strikes that has hobbled the U.K.’s rail network and overburdened health system

The Guardian - UK

UK household income likely to fall by £2,000 a year, says thinktank

Resolution Foundation says UK only halfway through two-year cost of living crisis, with only very richest likely to see income rise in 2023-24

The Independent UK

Worst yet to come for families struggling with cost of living, think tank warns

After housing costs, the typical income for a working age family is set to drop by 3% in the year to the end of March.

Daily Record

Financial expert warns people could end up paying more tax from April

The freeze on income tax thresholds could see some people paying more tax on their salary.

Chronicle Live

£900 DWP Cost of Living payment dates and who will get the three payments in 2023/2024

Payments of £301, £300 and £299 will be made to eight million homes on benefits between April 1 2023 and March 31, 2024

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