Tony Blair Institute Proposes Lifespan Fund to Replace State Pension Triple Lock

DWP warned over making 'troubling' three tweaks to state pensions

A report from the Tony Blair Institute has called on the DWP to axe the Triple Lock, Pension Credit and the state pension age

New call to scrap State Pension Triple Lock and give earlier access to payments

Plans would replace the current system with a ‘Lifespan Fund’, allowing people to use part of their State Pension before retirement for things like caring or retraining.

State pensioners born after 1960 could be given early access to DWP payments

Sir Tony Blair's thinktank, the Tony Blair Institute, says the triple lock should be scrapped.

Government told to scrap triple-lock and replace state pension

The plan would replace the pension with a 'lifespan fund'

Tony Blair: break the triple lock, remake the state pension

In the autumn of 1999 Tony Blair was attending the opening of a nursery when he was confronted by an elderly woman holding a sign. The sign was an early expression of a view many people would come to hold over the following decade. It read: “Blair, you are a c***”. The reason this “typical sweet granny”, as Blair remembers her in his memoir, My Journey, was annoyed was that under his government, the state pension was due to rise by the rate of i…

The new plan to scrap the state pension triple lock - and what could replace it

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