Submitted on Friday 18th February 2022
Rejected on Tuesday 22nd February 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Raise the State Pension to the same level as the National Living Wage
The government introduced a minimum wage so that people would have enough money to live on.
Pensioners also need enough money to live on.
Change the rate of the state pension to be in line with the national living wage.
The government are raising the NLW to £9.50 an hr (19,760) a year which they say people need to live on, but expect pensioners to live on £3.54 an hr (£7,376) a year, the basic state pension.
All people regardless of standing should to be looked on as equal, this is clearly not the case.
Most have paid into the state pension through NIC during their working life.
Pensioners have to pay the same bills others do, but are expected to do it with less than half of the income.
This is unacceptable.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We understand that you want the state pension to be increased, but state pension is a weekly amount, whereas the national minimum and living wages are hourly rates. We could accept a petition calling on the Government to increase the state pension to £19,760 a year (or £380 a week), if that's what you want to happen.
18.220.212.45 Sat, 18 May 2024 13:37:18 +0100
