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  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    Pension Protection Fund
    Pension lifeboat fund rules leave 83,000 with no cover for rising UK inflation

    Ministers urged to review PPF policy for elderly members exposed to cost of living crisis

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    Robert Merton
    We need new savings options to ward off retirement funding crisis

    As social security faces numerous solvency and structural issues, we must turn to fresh strategies

  • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
    French presidential election
    Macron waters down key pension reform in attempt to woo left

    President backs away from pledge to raise retirement age to 65 as he courts working-class voters in run-off against Le Pen

  • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
    Workplace pensions
    Surging living costs force Britons to work past retirement age

    Abrdn study finds two-thirds are not giving up work due to rising bills

  • Sunday, 20 February, 2022
    LexAgeing Populations
    Life expectancy: healthy living helps beat the odds Premium content

    There is no changing the destination, but we can take longer to get there

  • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
    Pensions
    Government ‘trying to fix state pension age review’

    TUC challenges independence of Tory peer writing planned report

  • Tuesday, 25 January, 2022
    Rise in UK state pension age drives record employment among 65-year-olds

    Gradual increase leads to 55,000 more remaining in work, with those living in poorer areas more likely to work for longer

  • Friday, 21 January, 2022
    UK state pension payment system ‘not fit for purpose’, MPs warn

    Spending watchdog accuses government over £1bn in underpayments to 134,000 mostly female pensioners

  • Friday, 14 January, 2022
    State pension plans: pressure set to grow on UK government

    ONS revises its forecasts on life expectancy

  • Wednesday, 12 January, 2022
    Ageing Populations
    UK natural population set to start to decline by 2025

    ONS forecasts deaths will surpass births two decades earlier than expected marking demographic shift

  • Friday, 7 January, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Sunak pressed to boost UK state pensions

    Calls for rethink on suspension of ‘triple lock’ as rising cost of living triggers concern among Tory MPs

  • Tuesday, 30 November, 2021
    Money Clinic with Claer Barrett podcast26 min listen
    Help! I need to sort out my pensions

    How to manage your pension pots and state pension contributions

  • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
    Personal pensions
    Millions blocked from accessing pensions at 55

    Treasury in surprise closure of window for savers to beat two-year rise in minimum age for eligibility

  • Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
    State pension triple lock
    Lords defeat government over change to UK state pension uplift

    Peers vote to keep ‘triple lock’ despite extra £5bn cost to Treasury, but move faces reversal in Commons

  • Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
    Workplace pensions
    My life expectancy was 9 years old, but now I need a pension

    David thought he wouldn’t live to see retirement, but a medical breakthrough means he needs to start planning

  • Tuesday, 21 September, 2021
    UK pensioners underpaid by £1bn after government errors, watchdog finds

    More than 130,000 retirees in line for payouts amounting to thousands of pounds

  • Sunday, 19 September, 2021
    Pensions industry
    US stock market rally bolsters state pension plans

    Recovery spreads across $3.9tn American public retirement system

  • Friday, 17 September, 2021
    Moira O'Neill
    Be frugal at 40 and prioritise your pension

    As millennials start to enter their fifth decade, their thoughts need to turn to funding retirement

  • Wednesday, 15 September, 2021
    Thousands face delays to UK state pension payments

    DWP blames administrative problems during the pandemic

  • Friday, 6 August, 2021
    Steve Webb
    Help tomorrow’s widows prepare for an income shock

    State pension reforms will hit bereaved spouse’s finances

  • Friday, 23 July, 2021
    Pension drawdown
    Savers seeking to keep early access to pension pots face 2023 deadline

    Investors must act to protect rights, as government plans to raise minimum access age from 55 to 57

  • Monday, 28 June, 2021
    News in-depthChinese society
    The Chinese women desperate to keep working but forced to retire

    Female professionals are taking employers to court in a fight against the world’s lowest retirement age

  • Monday, 28 June, 2021
    Personal pensions
    Nearly one-fifth of UK pensioners live in poverty

    Pension changes and low benefit uptake drive hardship, with over 85s and women worst hit 

  • Monday, 21 June, 2021
    State pension triple lock
    Downing St vows to stick with pension ‘triple lock’

    No 10 insists committed to pledge despite Treasury concerns on potential £4bn cost of uprating retirement payments

  • Tuesday, 15 June, 2021
    Sunak faces £4bn bill to keep ‘triple lock’ pension pledge

    Data distortions mean UK chancellor could hand windfall to pensioners if he sticks to Tory policy

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