New calls to increase weekly State Pension payments to £549 for every person aged over 60

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A new online petition is calling on the UK Government to increase weekly State Pension payments to £549 for every person over the age of 60, including Brits living abroad in retirement.

Petition creator Denver Johnson, proposes increasing the State Pension to equal 48 hours each week at the National Living Wage rate of £11.44 per hour.

The petition proposals would provide 12.9 million people currently on the State Pension - and those over 60 - with £28,554.24 each year.

This uplift would also be applied to some 453,000 retirees whose State Pension has been frozen at the point of emigration because the country they now live in does not have a reciprocal agreement with the UK Government.The ‘Give State Pension to all at 60 and increase it to equal 48hrs at Living Wage’ petition has been posted on the petitions-parliament website and states: “We want the Government to make the State Pension available from the age of 60 and increase this to equal 48 hours a week at the National Living Wage.“Hence from April 2024, a universal State Pension should be £549.12 per week or about £28,554.24 per year as a right to all including expatriates, age 60 and above.“We think that Government policy seems intent on the State Pension being a benefit, while increasing the age of entitlement.