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    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Workplace pensions
      ‘High-earning men face a state pension shortfall’

      Top 10 per cent male earners pay more in national insurance than they get in retirement benefit, study reveals

    • Saturday, 20 August, 2022
      Personal pensions
      Read the fine print before consolidating pension pots

      Older schemes may have advantages worth keeping

    • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
      Personal Finance
      Older women wrongly denied more than £4,000 in state pension

      Cases emerge of DWP processing errors relating to those who paid the ‘married woman’s stamp’

    • Friday, 3 June, 2022
      Workplace pensions
      The trouble with pension projections

      Plans to standardise growth assumptions by the Financial Reporting Council are in danger of confusing savers

    • Saturday, 22 January, 2022
      Isas
      Three million cash Isa pensioners hit by inflation

      Figures raise concerns over impact of rising prices on savings

    • Saturday, 27 November, 2021
      Advice & Comment
      Annuities deserve a fresh look

      Older pensioners can benefit from out-of-favour retirement instruments

    • Friday, 6 August, 2021
      Advice & Comment
      Help tomorrow’s widows prepare for an income shock

      State pension reforms will hit bereaved spouse’s finances

    • Thursday, 3 June, 2021
      State pension
      UK state pension underpayment scandal wider than feared, experts say

      Tens of thousands of additional women might be owed money because they did not know they had to claim for an uplift

    • Friday, 2 April, 2021
      Pensions
      Child benefit ‘mistake’ leaves 200,000 families at risk of state pension reduction

      Parents could be eligible for higher retirement income relating to child benefit claims

    • Wednesday, 10 March, 2021
      Margaret Wilson
      Why women are worse off in retirement

      £2.7bn state pension back payments are the latest indication of inequalities

    • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      Will Covid alter your retirement sequence?

      The pandemic will have side effects for pensions planning

    • Monday, 23 March, 2020
      UK business & economy
      Relax tax rules on pensions access, argues Sir Steve Webb 

      Former pensions minister says the crisis means greater flexibility is needed 

    • Wednesday, 27 November, 2019
      News in-depthUK general election
      Labour stumbles over tax promises

      Tories jump on threat to pledge to leave alone those making less than £80,000

    • Friday, 22 November, 2019
      National Health Service
      Ministers risk NHS pension tax breach in bid to avert pre-poll crisis

      Emergency action to tackle hospital staffing could break rules as health climbs election agenda

    • Friday, 28 September, 2018
      UK business & economy
      High earners caught out by clampdown on pensions tax relief

      Treasury benefits to tune of £250m but critics complain of added complexity

    • Friday, 4 May, 2018
      State pension
      Windrush generation could have lost pension benefits

      Check your state retirement forecast, urges former minister

    • Friday, 27 April, 2018
      Workplace pensions
      Fears over workers ‘nudged into self-employment’

      HMRC and pension regulator urged to look at actions of employers

    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2017
      Insurance
      Whitehall delayed pensions cold calling ban, claims ex-minister

      Civil servants resisted curbs to prevent scams, Baroness Altmann tells MPs

    • Friday, 6 October, 2017
      Final salary schemes
      FCA urged to launch full probe into pension transfer advice

      Less than half of guidance given to clients was ‘suitable’, regulator finds

    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2017
      Insurance
      MPs to probe pensions freedoms

      Concerns that reforms have increased the risks of scams

    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2017
      Workplace pensions
      Parents could claw back child benefit by paying into pensions

      Higher earners are missing out on £171m a year, says study

    • Friday, 28 July, 2017
      Tax
      1.7m pensioners face ‘misery’ of annual tax return

      Those aged 65 and over account for growing slice of taxpayers

    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2017
      State pension
      Rise in state pension age to 68 brought forward by 7 years

      Government accelerates shift to longer working life in response to ‘demographic pressure’

    • Friday, 14 July, 2017
      Annuities
      Most retirees are using their pension freedom responsibly

      The pensioner who blows a huge pot of money on Italian sports cars is a myth

    • Friday, 23 June, 2017
      Final salary schemes
      Rules to tighten on cashing in final salary pensions

      Regulator warns tougher consumer protection rules could add £1,600 to transfer costs

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