{"id":11619,"date":"2022-10-02T13:51:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T13:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/10\/02\/pm-liz-truss-mixed-news-on-benefits-and-pensions\/"},"modified":"2022-10-02T13:51:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T13:51:54","slug":"pm-liz-truss-mixed-news-on-benefits-and-pensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=11619","title":{"rendered":"PM Liz Truss&#8217; mixed news on benefits and pensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Prime minister Liz Truss has refused to confirm that benefits will rise with inflation, something her predecessor Boris Johnson had promised. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">When asked about whether pensions will go up with inflation, Ms Truss said that she was committed to triple-lock, a pension that is supposed to increase each year in line with whichever is higher, inflation, the average wage increase or 2.5%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The prime minister was speaking ahead of the Conservative party conference in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-63107185?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Prime minister Liz Truss has refused to confirm that benefits will rise with inflation, something her predecessor Boris Johnson had promised. When asked about whether pensions will go up &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}