Wellbeing Pension Campaign Welcomes SNP Manifesto Commitment to Wellbeing Pension.
The SNP manifesto published on July 19th 2024 contains the pledge to:
“Protect pensions by maintaining the triple lock and move to deliver a wellbeing pension. We will oppose any further increases in the state pension age.”
This commitment follows multiple meetings between The Wellbeing Pension Campaign and Government Ministers and presentations made directly to the SNP.
The Wellbeing Pension has now been committed to in principle by the Scottish Government and we welcome that commitment. However, we recognise that control over pensions remains a reserved power of the UK Parliament in Westminster, so the SNPs commitment is to raise pensions to the Wellbeing Pension level in an independent Scotland. So we continue to campaign for a decent pension.
The state pension should be means tested. Someone like my dad who’s final salary pension brings him in £35k shouldn’t be getting state pension and winter fuel allowance (which he spends on fuel for his fucking boat).
