state pension

Mike Bell: The elephant in the Budget

UK

Mike Bell: The elephant in the Budget

Problem politicians dare not mention

clock 01 December 2025 • 4 min read
Autumn Statement 23: Hunt backs 8.5% state pension triple lock rise

Pensions

Autumn Statement 23: Hunt backs 8.5% state pension triple lock rise

From April next year

clock 22 November 2023 • 3 min read

Industry

Spring Budget 2021: DWP to backdate £3bn in state pension underpayments to women

Over next six years

clock 03 March 2021 • 2 min read

Industry

Spring Budget 2021: Sunak freezes lifetime allowance for pensions contributions

IHT threshold also held at current levels

clock 03 March 2021 • 3 min read

UK

GE2019: Labour and Lib Dems reveal pension and tax policies

Race to Downing Street turns to income tax and social care

clock 22 November 2019 • 4 min read

Pensions

Ex-FSA chairman calls for pension age to rise to 70 as soon as 2040

The state pension age should rise to 70 by 2040 - more than 20 years earlier than scheduled under government changes - the former chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) Lord Adair Turner said last night.

clock 12 March 2014 • 1 min read

Economics

Autumn Statement 2013: Govt confirms accelerated state pension age rise

More workers will have to wait until age 68 for their state pension after the Chancellor confirmed entitlement rules would change quicker.

clock 05 December 2013 •

Pensions

Retirement options: getting the right mix

The wide range of pension options now available are increasingly complex making choosing the right scheme something of an exacting science

clock 02 November 2009 •

Pensions

What did the Pensions Act 2008 achieve?

While the Pensions Act 2007 outlined changes to the Basic State Pension and Second State pension, including raising the retirement age for both men and women to 68 eventually, so the Pensions Act 2008 has focused on reforming workplace pension provision...

clock 05 October 2009 •
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