Welfare and pensionsPlaid CymruMain pledgesKeep the triple-lock on pensions and ensure a Living Pension for allScrap the "Bedroom Tax"Oppose increases in the pension ageBan private firms from carrying out benefits assessments for profit
Welfare and pensionsConservativeMain pledgesReplace pensions triple lock with guarantee that increases after 2020 will at least match inflation and average wagesMeans-test Winter Fuel Payments "focusing assistance on the least well-off pensioners"Keep other pensioner benefits, including free bus passes and TV licencesGive more power to the Pensions Regulator to protect private pensions
Welfare and pensionsLabourMain pledgesKeep the pension triple lock and benefits for pensioners, such as the winter fuel allowance and free bus passesReview the benefit cap, universal credit and reinstate housing benefit for under 21sIncrease employment and support allowance by £30 per weekIncrease carer's allowance by £11 a week
Welfare and pensionsLabourMain pledgesScrap the current "punitive" benefit sanctions system and end the bedroom tax across the UKEnd reassessments for people with severe long-term conditionsSecure free bus passes in Scotland for those aged 60 and aboveBring back housing benefit for under-21s
Welfare and pensionsUKIPMain pledgesMaintain the triple-lock on state pensionsReverse cuts to care budgets and put £2bn every year into social careIncrease Carer’s Allowance to match higher level of Job Seeker’s Allowance (£73.10)Scrap the bedroom tax
Welfare and pensionsLib DemsMain pledgesKeep the triple lock on pensions and free bus passesWithdraw winter fuel payments for wealthy pensionersReverse cuts to Universal CreditUprate working age benefits in line with inflation
Welfare and pensionsConservativeMain pledgesNo plans for further radical welfare reform in this parliament Continue the rollout of Universal CreditProtect universal Winter Fuel Payments for all older people. No means-testing in Scotland, unlike the policy for England. Move from triple to double lock on state pensions, meaning they rise in line with earnings or inflation - whichever is highest
Welfare and pensionsLib DemsMain pledgesMaintain the 'triple lock' of increasing the State Pension each year by the highest of earnings growth, prices growth or 2.5% for the next parliamentPledge to scrap the two-child rule for tax credits - including the controversial "rape clause"Uprate working-age benefits at least in line with inflationExtend free childcare and encourage new fathers to take time off with an additional month's paid paternity leave
Welfare and pensionsSNPMain pledgesKeep the pensions triple lock across the UKEnd the freeze on working age benefits and halt further cutsProtect universal winter fuel payments, which the Conservatives want to means test Support the WASPI campaign, so women born in the 1950s receive the pensions they are due
Welfare and pensionsGreenMain pledgesMove towards a system of a "universal basic income"Reinstate housing benefit for under-21sAbolish the "bedroom tax"