State pension set to rise by 3.9% – how much could you get?

Pensioners will likely get a 3.9% increase in their state pension next April.Under the triple lock mechanism, the state pension rises each April by the highest of the previous September’s Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure of inflation, 2.5% or average earnings growth from the previous May to July.Provisional figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) today (15 September) confirmed average earnings growth between May and July was 3.9%.Unless CPI inflation for September