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The UK Government has said there are “no plans to make the State Pension available from the age of 60” or for payments to rise to £586 each week, in response to proposals put forward in an online petition. More than 16,400 people from across the UK have shown support for the petition, posted on the Petitions Parliament website. ‌

Petition creator Denver Johnson, proposes increasing payments to equal 48 hours each week at the National Living Wage rate of £12.21 per hour. Such an uplift would provide over 12 million people currently on the State Pension - and those over 60 - with £2344 every four-week payment period, some £30,476 each year. ‌

This uplift would also be applied to some 453,000 retirees whose State Pension has been frozen at the point of emigration because

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