{"id":8848,"date":"2015-10-21T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/scrap-triple-lock-that-protects-state-pensions-says-thinktank-chief\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T23:51:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T16:51:19","slug":"scrap-triple-lock-that-protects-state-pensions-says-thinktank-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/scrap-triple-lock-that-protects-state-pensions-says-thinktank-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrap triple lock that protects state pensions, says thinktank chief"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nPaul Johnson, head of the IFS, says today\u2019s pensioners have fared extraordinarily well relative to their predecessorsPensioners have benefited from an \u201camazing\u201d period of rising living standards relative to the rest of society, and the government should scrap its triple lock that protects the value of the state pension, according to Paul Johnson, head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.In a lecture on Tuesday evening, the thinktank\u2019s director, whose pithy interventions framed the economic debate in the run-up to May\u2019s general election, argues that today\u2019s pensioners have fared extraordinarily well relative to their predecessors. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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