Pension must be linked to the average wage

THE PDs plan to increase the State pension to €300 if they are returned to power.

But if the Tánaiste really wants to reward pensioners for the contribution they have made to our economic success and to ensuring they are financially equipped to live in dignity, he must seriously look at index-linking the State pension to the average industrial wage.

Age Action wants the State pension to be index-linked and to reach 50% of the average industrial wage by 2016. Currently it is just above 33%.