{"id":221283,"date":"2025-10-23T22:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/221283\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T22:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:20:14","slug":"dwp-confirms-453000-state-pensioners-wont-get-triple-lock-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/221283\/","title":{"rendered":"DWP confirms 453,000 state pensioners won’t get Triple Lock increase"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Frozen Pensions policy denies approximately 453,000 UK State Pensioners their full pension.\"DWPDWP confirms 453,000 state pensioners won’t get Triple Lock increase<\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) state pensioners will NOT receive the Triple Lock increase next April. The Frozen Pensions policy denies approximately 453,000 UK State Pensioners their full pension.<\/p>\n

This is because they moved, often in later life to be near family, to a country without what\u2019s called a reciprocal agreement. Over 100,000 of the affected pensioners live in Canada.<\/p>\n

Many of these pensioners are in poverty receiving on average a UK State Pension of just \u00a365 or less, in contrast to the current full UK state pension – which is set to rise by nearly five per cent next April off the back of September’s inflation figures.<\/p>\n

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Campaigners have long campaigned for the DWP<\/a> to make a rule change. On a Change.org petition, one campaign supporter said: “It is so unfair that just because older people who are living abroad they are not entitled to receive the full Pension that they have contributed to all their lives.”<\/p>\n

A second typed: “Veterans should not be treated like this, it is a disgrace. Anyone who has worked in this country and paid the NI for all the required time should get their pension wherever they live and veterans especially.<\/p>\n

“This lady went to live with her family and should not be punished for it. She will probably have saved this country hundreds of pounds in the NHS<\/a> and social Services.”<\/p>\n

Campaigners from the End Frozen Pension campaign headed to Parliament last year to ask MPs to sign a new open letter to the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

“This letter aims to reinforce the fact that politicians from the UK and impacted countries are united in calling out this injustice. This is a big opportunity to bring more political weight behind yours and my Mum’s calls for change,” the campaign said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Frozen Pensions policy denies approximately 453,000 UK State Pensioners their full pension.DWP confirms 453,000 state pensioners won’t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,2215,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-221283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dwp","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-personal-finance","12":"tag-personalfinance","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}