triple lock

The government should not impose a blanket ban on members transferring their defined benefit (DB) funds, according to an overwhelming 90% of Pensions Buzz respondents.

This week we want to know whether the government should ditch the triple lock for state pensions and instead move to a double lock policy to potentially save £6bn a year.

The government should drop the 'triple lock' for state pensions as it will become unaffordable, former pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann has said.

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The triple lock on state pensions most likely to go due to Brexit according to PP research.

Former pensions minister Steve Webb has said reaching a state pension age of 66 by 2020 should have been done over a much longer period.

The pace of change in pension reform has been too fast and risky according to PP research

The state pension triple lock is unnecessary and could place an unfair burden on future working generations, the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) has argued.

The average pensioner's income has risen by more than a fifth since 2002 while working-age incomes remained broadly stagnant at around 2% says the Resolution Foundation.

Angela Raynor has called for the creation of a retirement system which ensures a "secure retirement regardless of background" in her first major speech since taking on the shadow pensions brief.