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A new online petition is urging the UK Government to consider ‘abolishing’ the Basic State Pension and moving all 8.1 million pensioners on that system to the New State Pension. The Basic State Pension is the system that applied to those who reached retirement age before April 6, 2016. ‌

Petition creator Michael Thompson is also calling for the New State Pension to increase to “a good percentage of average earnings”. He highlighted how data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicates that Britain's average weekly earnings (AWE) were estimated at £722 in March 2025. ‌

The full New State Pension is currently worth £230.25 per week, some £921 every four-week payment period. Under the e-petition proposals, nearly 13 million pensioners would receive £722 per we

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