News - Pensioners get £2.20 a week rise
May 6, 2008 on 12:16 am | In National Insurance |The basic state for a single person will increase by 2.20 to 84.25 a week from next April, in line with inflation, the government has said.
The pension for married couples will go up by 3.55 to 134.75, it said.
Pensions Minister Stephen Timms said the move meant there had been an 8% rise in real terms in the value of the state pension since 1997.
Last week, the Pensions said the state pension should be bigger but that it should become payable later.
It said the state pension age should rise , 68 by 2050.
Mr Timms said National benefits would rise by 2.7% in the next financial year, while income-related benefits would go up by 2.2%.
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