* 66% of Britons support keeping triple lock in place, while 14% are opposed
* 18-34 year olds support triple lock by 44% to 22%
* Public are split on reducing triple lock to a double lock, and against making it a single lock
* The older Britons are, the higher net opposition is for changing the triple lock
trmetroidmaniac on
>A separate YouGov survey also tested whether the public are open to introducing a triple lock in further areas of welfare spending.
>The public are split over whether there should be a triple lock on working-age benefits, with 40% supporting the idea and 35% opposing it, or a triple lock on benefits for children, which 36% support while 38% are opposed.
>Opposition in both cases is notably higher among the older age groups – with 55% of the over-65s opposed to a triple lock on child benefits – although this is in part because younger Britons are more likely to have answered “don’t know”.
People aren’t generally principled about fairness, they just want to maximise what’s good for them at the expense of anyone else. This doesn’t just go for the old.
jajay119 on
Whether people support it or not it isn’t sustainable. It’s ironic to me the older generations tend to be the ones that derive benefit claimants completely unaware, or wilfully ignorant of the fact, that they’re the biggest drain on the benefits system. Of course the closer you get to retirement you’re going to support a system that impendingly benefits you, but it doesn’t change that it’s not sustainable.
JofersGames on
It’s always the poorest people opposing the triple lock and I don’t get why
Retirement in the coming decades will be incredibly difficult unless things change a lot
Less state pension will make things far harder for those that need it the most
No-Impact1573 on
No, why should we?? People have paid into it all their working life. Just because Gen Z can’t manage their money and job salary expectations.
explorerazure on
It’s a good idea morally but it’s just not sustainable, should definitely be means tested. The older generation got their “reward for being around during the war” by being able to buy houses when they were much much cheaper.
I don’t get why younger people should have to shoulder a higher burden of a shit economy.
Citizen_DerptyDerp on
No, fuck it, make it a quadrupal lock… I want to live happily if I make it to 100 and can finally claim a pension.
action_turtle on
I won’t get a state pension when my time comes, and if they reduce the current pension I wont get a tax reduction… so personally, don’t care either way, I guess.
fitzgoldy on
Again wide support from all ages for it.
Still, this and the other large UK sub will shit on pensioners only for it.
cow_clowns on
It’s political suicide, proven by the winter fuel payment fiasco. No party will ever manage to get in power if they run on this policy.
The only way possible to change it is if the bond markets force the country into a 1976 sterling crisis scenario due to lack of belief the country can continue financing its debt.
For a case study of what this looks like for a European country look at Greece.
I_miss_Chris_Hughton on
The triple lock is an outrageous waste of money. Honestly, the state pension should be cut and not insignificantly. It’s ridiculous.
ANd before there’s the whole “oooh they paid into it” there is no pension pot that was ever paid into. Peoples national insurance went into the national taxation pot. And that pot has barely been sufficent for anything, thus all the budget deficits. If “people got what they paid for” the state pension would be negative. And those repeated deficits were carried out, repeatedly, by elected governments. If you vote repeatedly for budget deficits you can’t expect a well funded state pension lol
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* 66% of Britons support keeping triple lock in place, while 14% are opposed
* 18-34 year olds support triple lock by 44% to 22%
* Public are split on reducing triple lock to a double lock, and against making it a single lock
* The older Britons are, the higher net opposition is for changing the triple lock
>A separate YouGov survey also tested whether the public are open to introducing a triple lock in further areas of welfare spending.
>The public are split over whether there should be a triple lock on working-age benefits, with 40% supporting the idea and 35% opposing it, or a triple lock on benefits for children, which 36% support while 38% are opposed.
>Opposition in both cases is notably higher among the older age groups – with 55% of the over-65s opposed to a triple lock on child benefits – although this is in part because younger Britons are more likely to have answered “don’t know”.
People aren’t generally principled about fairness, they just want to maximise what’s good for them at the expense of anyone else. This doesn’t just go for the old.
Whether people support it or not it isn’t sustainable. It’s ironic to me the older generations tend to be the ones that derive benefit claimants completely unaware, or wilfully ignorant of the fact, that they’re the biggest drain on the benefits system. Of course the closer you get to retirement you’re going to support a system that impendingly benefits you, but it doesn’t change that it’s not sustainable.
It’s always the poorest people opposing the triple lock and I don’t get why
Retirement in the coming decades will be incredibly difficult unless things change a lot
Less state pension will make things far harder for those that need it the most
No, why should we?? People have paid into it all their working life. Just because Gen Z can’t manage their money and job salary expectations.
It’s a good idea morally but it’s just not sustainable, should definitely be means tested. The older generation got their “reward for being around during the war” by being able to buy houses when they were much much cheaper.
I don’t get why younger people should have to shoulder a higher burden of a shit economy.
No, fuck it, make it a quadrupal lock… I want to live happily if I make it to 100 and can finally claim a pension.
I won’t get a state pension when my time comes, and if they reduce the current pension I wont get a tax reduction… so personally, don’t care either way, I guess.
Again wide support from all ages for it.
Still, this and the other large UK sub will shit on pensioners only for it.
It’s political suicide, proven by the winter fuel payment fiasco. No party will ever manage to get in power if they run on this policy.
The only way possible to change it is if the bond markets force the country into a 1976 sterling crisis scenario due to lack of belief the country can continue financing its debt.
For a case study of what this looks like for a European country look at Greece.
The triple lock is an outrageous waste of money. Honestly, the state pension should be cut and not insignificantly. It’s ridiculous.
ANd before there’s the whole “oooh they paid into it” there is no pension pot that was ever paid into. Peoples national insurance went into the national taxation pot. And that pot has barely been sufficent for anything, thus all the budget deficits. If “people got what they paid for” the state pension would be negative. And those repeated deficits were carried out, repeatedly, by elected governments. If you vote repeatedly for budget deficits you can’t expect a well funded state pension lol