Sentence examples for single pensioner from inspiring English sources
This means that with an above-indexation increase in pension credit a single pensioner could get up to £132.60 a week.
Pensioners would have seen their living standards rise, due to the link being restored between average earnings – it's been calculated that if the link had not been broken, a basic state pension for a single pensioner would now be worth £145.15 a week.
At present, this is set at about £11 above the basic state pension of £67.50 a week for a single pensioner.
The most frequently reported household settings for the people with MS were as: an adult couple not on a pension and with (non-dependent and/or dependent) children (25%); an adult couple on a pension with no dependent children (23%); an adult couple not on a pension and with no children (16%); and a single pensioner (15%).
From next month, the minimum guaranteed will be £75 per week for a single pensioner.
This article was amended on 17 March to correct the single pensioners' private pension figures, which were transposed in the editing process.
At the moment, more than half of the UK's single pensioners have a pension income of less than £10,000, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show.
As a first step, they want to raise the basic state pension for the over-75s from £80 to £105 for single pensioners.
At the same time, the standard minimum income guarantee in pension credit will increase by 3.9% to £142.70 a week for single pensioners and £217.90 a week for pensioner couples, and the threshold for savings credit will rise to £111.10 for single pensioners and £177.20 for pensioner couples.
Currently, the poorest single pensioners receive £70.45 a week, and get their rent paid.
