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Lords Push For Annuity Reform
The Government has again been defeated on key issues regarding amendments to the Pensions Bill, following the House of Lords' backing to scrap the rule forcing ...
Citizens Pension Proposals
Two of the industry's most influential bodies, the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) and the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI), have called for a citiz...
Compulsory Pensions A Possibility
The Government's Employer Task Force, set up last year to look at how to alleviate the pensions crisis, said the Government could be forced to look at drastic s...
Pension Hardship Payments
Employees who have lost their pensions following the wind-up of their company schemes may receive hardship payments from the Government as early as March after ...
Carry Back Reminder
As the new year beckons, so does a pension deadline that should not be ignored - pensions' carry back. With only 5 weeks until the end of January deadline, indi...
Final Salary Pension Contributions On The Rise
Employers boosted their defined benefit (final salary) pension schemes with an extra 4.5 billion in contributions in the first nine months of 2004 - a 31% incre...
Pension Bonus For Working Five Years Longer
Workers could benefit from up to 32000 by staying on at work for an extra five years under Government plans unveiled last week. This is one of the elements of t...
Retirement Is No Safe Bet
Pensioners are being driven to gambling in orderto supplement their income, according to a new report from financial giant, Prudential. One of the most surprisi...
£690 Billion Public Sector Pension Deficit
A staggering deficit exists in the funding of pension benefits for civil servants, teachers, National Health Service employees and the emergency services. Altho...
Fight for foreign pensions to be indexed
Today the House of Lords begins hearing an appeal case to determine whether Britons who retired abroad should have their pensions increased inline with the reta...