State Pension 2025/26. During the autumn budget the government confirmed that the state pension will rise by 4.1% on 6 april 2025, under what's known as the 'triple lock' guarantee. Based on the current inflation figure of 2.2%, the new state pension would need to rise by just over £250 simply for pensioners to stand still.

This would take the new full. S tarting from april next year, pensioners will see a 4.1% increase in their new and basic state pensions, while additional components will rise by 1.7%, in line with the triple lock.