Triple Lock shifts to Double Lock in 2022
The temporary Triple Lock suspension has cost pensioners up to £9.35 a week. Call it a good day for burying bad news. Within hours of the Prime Minister announcing his long-awaited plans for social care in England in early September, the Department for Work and Pensions revealed that the Triple Lock for the new and old state pensions would not apply next April. This broke a 2019 Conservative manifesto pledge, but by then it was the third pledge of the day to be dispensed with