Weekend reading: State Pension to fall out of lock step

The first Weekend Reading every month can be read by anyone on the Monevator website. Subscribe for free to our email newsletter or become a member to ensure you see the rest. I thought it notable there wasn’t more pushback in the comments last weekend, when I cited a growing consensus that something must be done about the pension triple-lock. A few of you raised thoughtful questions, mostly about what really drove the convergence of pension-age income with that of the rest of the population. But there were no pitchforks, no curses. No shaking a fist at the unfairness of it all. With hindsight, this eerie quiet further suggested that most of us can see the pension triple-lock is fair game – unsustainable in its current form. And sure enough, on Tuesday the Prime Minister pulled the bandaid off. The triple lock would be tweaked to reduce its long-run cost, Andy Burnham said, and any savings used to fund later life social care. Triple-topped As the BBC recaps: The triple lock was…