State pension income can make up a significant part of a person’s income during retirement. Currently, the full new state pension is £175.20 per week – and it’s set to rise by 2.5 percent in April 2021. Those contracted out before this
State Pension payments are often the primary, and can even be the sole, source of income for those who have left the workforce. The payments are built up through a person’s National Insurance contributions throughout their lifetime, but the sum a person receives
The triple lock was introduced to the UK State Pension in 2010. The guarantee gives assurance that State Pensions won’t lose value in real terms, and that the payments would increase year-on-year at least in line with CPI inflation rates. To make
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the two deadly suicide bombings at a central Baghdad market which killed at least 32 people and wounded over 100 more on Thursday. The global jihadist group said the attack targeted “apostate Shiites” in a
State Pension payments vary according to someone’s National Insurance contributions, but the full new state pension sum currently stands at £175.20 per week. Under the Triple Lock Mechanism, the state pension will increase each year by the highest of inflation, 2.5 percent or
Officials in the county that includes Dallas, Texas, abandoned a plan to focus Covid vaccination efforts on the most at-risk neighbourhoods, primarily communities of colour, after state officials threatened to cut down their vaccine allocation. On Wednesday, the Dallas County Commissioners Court
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It comes as new analysis of Office of National Statistics (ONS) data has found the over 50s age group are two and a half times as likely as younger age groups to be unemployed for at least two years. The unemployment data,
State Pension payments are received by millions of eligible people across the country, and can be an important entitlement. Many people will have built up decades of National Insurance contributions through hard work in order to receive their state pension in retirement. However,