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The new state pension – why savers are not necessarily better off
On its inception in 1909, the old age pension of five shillings per week (£20 in 2016 money) was paid to around 500,000 people aged 70 plus whose income was less than £21 a year, reducing to zero if that income exceeded £31.
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