The triple lock mechanism was originally introduced by the coalition government in 2011 to shield pensioners from inflation by promising to raise the state pension every year by the highest figure between inflation, wage increases and 2.5%.
However, many pensioners haven’t been able to get a single one of these increase. This is because their state pension is frozen for those who decide to spend their golden years abroad.
The 500,000 Britons aged 66 and older currently living overseas won’t see a penny of the £460 state pension rise due next April because of this.
One British pensioner, Sheila Wills, spoke to The Telegraph from her home in South Africa, where her family settled after living all over the continent during her husband’s 40-year career in British overseas development aid.