Plans for a radical change to the UK state pension that would merge the basic state pension with the state second pension are to be set out in a green paper

In 1910, 100 years ago this year, people demanded a basic state pension so that no one had to be terrified of poverty in old age. The Tories said we couldn’t afford a basic state pension. They fought tooth and nail against it. But our great grandparents disagreed. The people of this country came together, and finally, they beat the Tories.

One mostly over-looked part of the coalition agreement is what it says on pensions: We will restore the earnings link for the basic state pension from April 2011 with a “triple guarantee” that pensions are raised by the higher of earnings, prices or 2.5%, as proposed by the Liberal Democrats. That, by the way, is a better

Scale of budget gap amounts to quarter of spending on NHS, half the cost of basic state pension provision or tax increases for average household of £1,100 a year

The Conservatives match Labour's manifesto pledge to raise the basic state pension in line with earnings rather than prices from 2012

Labour pledged to restore the link between the basic state pension and earnings from 2012 and go ahead with plans to reform social care – measures that will between them cost at least £3.5bn a year

Nick Clegg is a careerist politican, we shouldn't forget that, but somebody ought to be briefing him on events and how to behave in the outside world. Mr Clegg, whom we should not forget cannot tell you how much the basic state pension is but can remember his exact number of lovers, has done it again - pushing the case for donating to the DEC on behalf of the victims of the terrible Haiti ear...

Alan Whitehead, Labour MP for Southampton Test, today welcomed the help for pensioners and local businesses announced today in the Pre-Budget Report. The government announced a 2.5% increase in the basic state pension, an extension to the increase in Winter Fuel Payments to help pensioners with their heating bills during winter, as well as a raft of measures to boost the local economy. Dr Whitehea...

David Cameron could seek to raise the basic state pension more quickly than the current Government is planning.

David Cameron has said that the huge budget deficit will not stop a Tory government restoring the link between earnings and the level of the basic state pension.