Meanings of basic state in English

In thirteen years Labour failed to link the basic state pension to earnings.

In some ways, solids are the most basic state of matter.

The basic state of our Union today is sound, and full of promise.

The basic state pension will increase in line with average earnings from April 2011.

The basic state pension, available to older claimants, is £122.30 a week.

It allows employers to deduct some, or all, of the basic state pension from company pension payments.

The current basic state pension for a single person is £95.25 a week.

At 75, "no test … would be necessary and the basic state pension would be payable".

What is the basic state pension?

Sir, -Israel's new basic state law has come under considerable condemnation over the past week, but unjustifiably so.

He said a Conservative team would restore the earnings link for the basic state pension in the next parliament.

Next year's rise in the basic state pensions and other benefits are due to be announced later this month.

We had applied the usual rules for uprating the basic state pension in line with inflation, which was low.

If it cannot handle this task efficiently, the government should outsource the management of this basic state responsibility, Geldenhuys said.

It was simply a basic state that existed because he was six feet two and she was four feet one.

It replaces personal tax allowances, and most means-tested benefits including jobseeker's allowance, child benefit, the basic state pension and tax credits.