Triple lock helps the poorest pensioners | Letters

Dr John Hurley and Martin Wright on Rishi Sunak’s pledge to keep the pension triple lockDiscussion of the triple lock for state pensions (Sunak pledges to keep to pension triple lock despite signs of extra £10bn cost, 16 August) has to take account of the fact that, according to the House of Commons library, “a comparison of state pension alone shows the UK providing a lower level of pension than most other advanced economies relative to average earnings”. The deficit is