Lets say you are 20- 30 years old and reading that .......... older people than them have created a debt mountain thru numerous governments and including this pandemic. We havent created wealth we have created debt that must be paid off sometime and by their generation. Then the kicker - pandemic comes in and as posters note thru a weird anamoly it creates a large increase in pension payments to older people which again must be paid for sometime by younger people. Some of the most wealthy people in this country are older people, final salary pensions, very low cost housing, cheap university etc.
It does annoy be when people just say they deserve it - I find it selfish. This triple lock this year should at least be means tested, dont think its vaguely fair to have younger people struggling to fund rich pensioners (and there are millions who live perfectly well funded lives)
This board is great in supporting social issues and the underpriveleged but an issue passing on debt mountains to younger people is not of great importance to many ... and by the way we didnt pay/ fund this, in the 30 years I have worked I have absolutely not always been funding a triple lock pension that has the covid spike in it.