Detailed Benefit Uprating Statistics show how the State Pension has risen far more than other benefits over the years.
The chart opposite shows the two benefit rates tracked against one another from their introduction until the 1970s. After that, the rates diverged as pensions were increased by a greater amount with the introduction of earnings links in the 1970s, and the more recent triple lock. Whereas unemployment benefit rates have shown a decades-long downward trend.
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