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Raise the basic pension in-line with the minimum hourly rate.

Submitted on Wednesday 27th October 2021

Rejected on Tuesday 2nd November 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

Petition Action

Raise the basic pension in-line with the minimum hourly rate.

Petition Details

You say that £9-50 is the minimum hourly rate, ie £380 a week, yet pensioners are living on half this money a week. £190 app.

Additional Information

Pensioners are living below your own agreed minimum wage. It’s about time pensions were brought in line with other euro countries who pay there pensioners at least twice the amount received in the UK…


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We understand that you want to see changes to the state pension, but we're not sure exactly what changes. Your petition calls for the state pension to be aligned with the National Living Wage, but this is an hourly rate of pay (with different wages for different age groups), whereas the state pension is a weekly amount.

You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.

We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Increase State Pensions to £400 a week and fund free adult social care for all: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/584971

Increase the state pension by £5,000 a year: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/595241

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