Martin Lewis addressed Chancellor Rachel Reeves ' comments following her interview on ITV 's Good Morning Britiain . The TV star joined the programme via video link to disuss how the government's recently annoucned 2024 Budget would affect the public when he blasted the politician. Speaking to presenters Ed Balls and Kate Garraway , he stated: "I was listening to your interview, two things she said when she was talking about state pensions.
"The first thing she said is that state pensioners will get £470 uplift because of the triple lock , that is simply factually not true for the vast majority of state pensioners, let's just do this properly." Martin explained: "That is the rise you will get if you're on the full, new state pension ." “First of all, three in four pensioners are on the old state pension .
“The rise on the full old state pension is £360, not £470, so the vast majority of pensioners wil not get £470 by definition. This is a breaking live TV story, the Showbiz Express.co.
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