An online petition is calling on the UK Government to increase the State Pension for disabled people by £25 each week in order to reduce the pension wealth gap for retired workers. Petition creator Aneesha Sandhu said that the £25 weekly uplift would “help provide stability for retired disabled workers who need it most”.
The petition has been posted on the petitions-parliament website and will trigger an official response from the UK Government if it reaches 10,000 signatures of support. It states that the average pension wealth for people with a disability approaching retirement age is just £47,980.
It also said that there are over four million disabled workers across the UK, but only 54 per cent are saving into a private pension. It adds that “more disabled people are working now than ever (53%), however, this is still significantly lower than non-disabled people (82%)”.
