The Guardian view on golden oldies: time to move over | Editorial

Pensioner poverty is not quite defeated, but people in work and, above all, families with children are really feeling the pain of benefit cutsOften hard to remember in the long welfare chill, but there is one resounding success of the last decade of policy. Fewer pensioners are living in relative poverty than ever before. The impact of the triple lock, introduced in 2012, guaranteeing that the state pension will go up every year by at least 2.5% – more if earnings or the inflation rate exc