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Pensions & Retirement
The state pension age may be rising faster than our life expectancy
New research shows that the state pension age may be increasing too quickly
The new Pensions Advice Allowance – £500 tax-free from your pension. How will it work?
The government says you will be able to take out £500 from your pension before you retire, tax free, as long as you use the money for advice on what to do with your pensions and retirement savings
How much should I save for retirement? How much should I pay into my pension?
You’ve started saving into a pension – great
Ros Altmann has left her job and is no longer pensions minister
Ros Altmann, appointed by David Cameron in 2015, has left her job as Pensions Minister
Brexit will make it harder to help 1950s women, says Pensions Minister
The Pensions Minister, Baroness Altmann, says that the decision to leave the European Union means that it could be much harder to implement transitional arrangements for women born in the 1950s so they can get their state pension early
The WASPI demo in London outside Parliament
Thousands of women (and men) made their voices heard outside Parliament in this afternoon’s demo day organised by the campaign group WASPI
The government will write to women who won’t get a penny from the new state pension
The new state pension, introduced in April, includes a change in the rules that means you have to have ten years of National Insurance contributions to get any state pension
Planned changes to the British Steel pension fund – who could lose out?
The government is currently consulting on changes to the British Steel pension fund
Sir Philip Green is paying up to £363 million to the BHS pension scheme
Sir Philip Green has said he will give up to £363 million to the BHS pension scheme
Should you be offered pensions guidance as the ‘default’ option when you retire?
The pension freedoms mean you have much more choice about what you do with your pension when you retire
Ros Altmann says Stephen Crabb, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, will meet the WASPI campaigners
The Pensions Minister, Ros Altmann, appeared before the Work and Pensions Committee and said that the Minister for Work and Pensions, Stephen Crabb was meeting the WASPI (women against state pension age inequality) campaigners
Pensions jargon explained – what pension terms mean
Confused by pensions jargon and terminology
10 things you need to know about the new state pension from April 2016
There’s a new ‘flat rate’ state pension that came in on April 6th – paid to anyone who reaches state pension age from now
MPs say that 1950s women could get early access to their state pension
A parliamentary committee has recommended that women who’ve been affected by the rises in state pension age from 60 to 65 or 66 should be able to get their state pension paid early
Contracting out and the new state pension – how do you work out what you’ll get?
If you reach state pension age after April 5th 2016, you’ll receive the new state pension
The government’s first state pension age review – what could it recommend and how can you get involved?
This week the Pensions Minister, Ros Altmann, announced that the first state pension age review would take place and who would lead it
The latest state pension debate – what happened?
The latest parliamentary debate on the rise in state pension age took place today, as a result of the WASPI state pension age campaign
The WASPI petition debate – any hope for women affected by state pension age rises?
The petition calling for transitional measures for women born in the 1950s affected by the rises in state pension age was debated in parliament today
High pension exit fees are to be scrapped. What could it mean?
If you want to take money out of your pension, using the pension ‘freedoms’ you may have to pay an exit fee
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