It was first started in 1971 and the amount frozen since then. This £13 pound per year is a real insult.
Peasblossom - no sure about your first response. The reason I do not get a full pension is that for some twenty years I was a foster parent (back in the days when we barely got expenses, definitely no pay), and a carer for my husband who had MS. Yes, I worked, extremely hard with a houseful of children during these years. No Carers Allowance back then either.
My comment was not yet another one, on this very silly extra 25p per week to 'help older people', but on the fact that it is then being deducted from the top-up Pension Credit I receive. I will obviously query in due course.
In UK we have one of the lowest old age pensions in Europe (might be THE LOWEST).
I really would like to see this increased for all (anyway, there are a lot fewer of us after the Pandemic), and all the 'extras' incorporated into that and not paid out separately - £10 Xmas Allowance, Winter fuel payments, etc. etc.