Pensions
Webchat: Pension planning
Retirement and insurance specialist LV= reveal how the nation’s over 50s are planning for their later years in today's webchat at 1pm.
Inside Pensions
Simon Read: Why should women have to lose their retirement income?
Saturday, 21 May 2011
Women marched on Westminster this week to complain about the Government moving their pension goalposts. They had a massively important point to make. The Coalition's intention to raise the state pension age to 66 by 2020 will affect five million people and simply does not give them enough time to plan. It also risks plunging thousands of women into poverty, according to the charity Age UK, which arranged Wednesday's demonstration at Parliament.
Equitable Life compensation will take five more years
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Equitable Life investors will start to receive compensation from the end of next month, the Government said yesterday. Some £775m will be paid out to about 945,000 policyholders, while £620m will be shared among 37,000 with-profits annuitants.
Minister heckled at teachers' conference over pension reform
Thursday, 21 April 2011
Richard Garner: Teachers heckled and jeered the Schools minister yesterday as he tried to justify a range of government policies to them.
Pension plan 'hits poorest'
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Nearly a fifth of Britain's poorest men die before receiving their state pension and extending the working age will affect them disproportionately, an MP has warned.
Early access to pensions ruled out
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
People will not be allowed to dip into their pensions before they reach retirement age, the Government announced yesterday.
Twelve million pensioners to lose out when credits are scrapped
Sunday, 10 April 2011
Experts warn of a two-tier system that will last for 30 years. Chiara Cavaglieri and Julian Knight report
Self-employed set for higher state pensions
Monday, 4 April 2011
Self-employed people will receive a higher state pension. Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, will pledge that people running business will benefit from his plan to scrap means-testing and bring in a flat-rate pension of about £155 a week.
Duncan Smith to outline state pension plan
Monday, 4 April 2011
The Work and Pensions Secretary plans to create a flat-rate £140-a-week state pension.
How late retirement affects your pension
Sunday, 3 April 2011
Now we can work past 65, and there are ways to maximise funds and savings.
Will you get the state pension you deserve?
Saturday, 2 April 2011
Up to 18 million people may not receive their full entitlement. Make sure you're not one of them, says Neasa MacErlean
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