About this data

Source: DWP, Abstract of DWP benefit rate statistics 2025; Benefit and pension rates 2026 to 2027; ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings

• The basic State Pension is paid to people who reached State Pension age before 6 April 2016. The new State Pension replaced it for people reaching State Pension age from then. Both are shown at the full rate, for someone with a full National Insurance record (35 years for the new State Pension).
• Earnings are gross weekly earnings of full-time employees in Great Britain (New Earnings Survey until 1997, then the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings), in the April before each uprating. Ratios are DWP's own, except the latest year, which is calculated the same way from ASHE 2026 provisional figures.
• Since 2011-12, the State Pension has risen each April by the highest of earnings growth, CPI inflation and 2.5% (the 'triple lock'), except in 2022-23, when the earnings link was suspended.

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