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State pensioners across the UK will be handed a £575 boost from April 2026 thanks to the Department for Work and Pensions or DWP Triple Lock. But older retirees born before 1953 will miss out because they are on the Basic rate.

Pensioners born before 1951, if they're men, or 1953, if they're women, only get £176.45 per week, which will rise to £184.90 per week, or £439.40 extra per year. It means older state pensioners will get £136 less.

Under the triple-lock mechanism, the state pension increases every April by whatever is the highest – the previous September’s inflation figure, annual earnings growth, or 2.5 per cent.

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The earnings growth figure was confirmed as 4.8 per cent earlier t

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