MP is backing the triple lock vote

BARNSLEY East MP Stephanie Peacock is backing a vote to protect the pensions triple lock – and without it pensioners in the town will face a cut of almost £900 a year.

The Labour Party backed the vote in Parliament on Tuesday.

Stephanie said: “This debate and this decision about the triple lock matters to pensioners in Barnsley.

“But, by threatening the triple lock, this government is instead turning their back on older people just when times are harder than ever.

“Indeed, alongside working families, pensioners are already struggling with the spiralling cost of living.

“One constituent in her sixties told me that she was sat shivering as she wrote to me about not being able to afford the heating.

“Another, aged 98, got in touch having received an energy bill of £3,700 for the next 12 months.”