After Carillion went into liquidation, how safe is your company pension? In this podcast, Sarah talks to Michelle Cracknell who’s the Chief Executive of The Pensions Advisory Service, about what happens if your employer goes bust and how risky company pensions are
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The WASPI campaign (Women Against State Pension Inequality) says that the government cannot continue to ignore its demands for a transitional state pension payment
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The rise(s) in the state pension age is one of the issues that readers contact SavvyWoman most about
A new report shows that the UK state pension is the least generous of any developed country
If you’ve taken money out of your pension, you may have paid too much tax
Unless you want to live on the state pension, you’ll need to save for your retirement, and a pension is a good way of doing that
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How do you feel about the state pension
If you don’t have a pension or other savings you can live off when you retire, you could be living on £23 a day
Labour has announced plans to let some women take their state pension up to two years early
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I get lots of emails from WASPI women whose state pension has been delayed
The news headlines are regularly full of stories about pension schemes having a pension deficit
New research shows that older women are poorer because of the rise in state pension age
The state pension age will rise from 67 to 68 seven years earlier than planned – starting from 2037
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It’s been over two years since pension freedoms were introduced
The government is coming under increasing pressure to offer financial help to 1950s women in the latest WASPI state pension age debate
If you have several pensions, it should be easier to keep track of them in the future as the pensions dashboard is due in 2019
John Cridland has published his final report on future rises in the state pension age
Two pension providers look likely to pay compensation to thousands of pensioners who bought the wrong annuity
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