14 April 2008
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), state and
private pensions still provide most pensioners with only "modest"
incomes.
The latest ONS update on pension trends shows that, in 2005-06,
62% of pensioner couples had less than £10,000 in pension
income.
Half of single pensioners had income from pensions of less than
£6,000.
But earlier research has shown that in the decade to 2005-06,
pensioners still became substantially better off. Their incomes,
from all sources, outstripped inflation by a third in the course of
those 10 years, the ONS reported last December.
