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The triple lock was introduced in 2010. Its purpose is to make sure that the State Pension doesn\u2019t lose value over time. The triple lock aims to protect pensioners against the impact of inflation. If the State Pension didn\u2019t change but the price of goods and services continued to increase over time, then you wouldn\u2019t be able to buy as much with it. Meaning you\u2019d be losing money in real terms.<\/p>\n
In the 2022 Autumn Statement, the Chancellor confirmed that the triple lock will be reinstated from 6 April 2023. This means the State Pension will rise in line with last September\u2019s inflation rate \u2013 10.1% \u2013 in the 2023\/24 tax year. Anyone receiving the State Pension will benefit from the triple lock.<\/p>\n
To make the guarantee even more secure, it included three separate measures of inflation, hence \u2018triple lock\u2019. The three-way guarantee was that each year, the State Pension would increase by the greatest of the following three measures: average earnings; prices, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and 2.5%. The government usually compares the three rates in September, before implementing the correct rise the following April.<\/p>\n
The State Pension triple lock has proved to be a burden for successive governments, as it has proven costly for the taxpayer. Because of people earning much less during the lockdowns of 2020, there was a big leap in average earnings of 8% come 2021 as people returned to work. The government announced that the triple lock would be suspended for the 2022\/23 tax year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
State pension is set for a record-breaking increase from April 2023 If you\u2019re currently receiving or have been looking into the State Pension, then you\u2019ve probably heard of the \u2018triple lock\u2019. But what is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.broadviewfinancialservices.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.broadviewfinancialservices.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.broadviewfinancialservices.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.broadviewfinancialservices.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.broadviewfinancialservices.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.broadviewfinancialservices.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.broadviewfinancialservices.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.broadviewfinancialservices.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.broadviewfinancialservices.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}