Lord David Willetts, president of the Resolution Foundation, a think tank focusing on people on lower incomes, said: “The Covid crisis has laid bare the design faults of the triple lock, with a severe jobs crisis last year inadvertently contributing to an unnecessary and unjustified 8% rise in the state pension next year.
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