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State pension

  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    UK rules out compensation for women affected by state pension age changes

    Liz Kendall says decision not to give payouts to so-called Waspi women is ‘difficult’ but ‘right course of action’

    Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) campaigners stage a protest outside the Houses of Parliament, in London
  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    News in-depthFrench politics
    Barnier touches nerve with plan to trim French pensions

    Prime minister’s money-saving proposal hits opposition, despite calls for more intergenerational fairness

    Michel Barnier waves outside the Élysée palace in Paris, France in October 2024
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Closure of UK inheritance tax ‘loophole’ to penalise estates of wealthy pensioners

    Experts say big tax bills could result from Rachel Reeves’ move in the Budget

    Commuters walk during the morning rush hour near the Bank of England in the City of London
  • Saturday, 26 October, 2024
    Uruguay
    Vote on lowering pension age to 60 jangles nerves in Uruguay

    Public to decide on a union-backed reform that worries the government, economists and markets

  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Special ReportFTfm: Pensions
    Japan’s biggest pension fund faces more pressure to deliver

    Changes to GPIF’s investment policies to take on more risk have been lauded — but the country’s system is under strain

  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Reeves unlikely to cut pension tax relief for higher earners, says report

    LCP consultancy argues chancellor does not want to alienate better paid public sector staff

    Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, gives her speech during the Labour party conference
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Personal Finance
    UK pensions in crosshairs if Reeves waters down non-doms overhaul

    Placating wealthy foreigners could shift chancellor’s focus elsewhere, experts say

  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Special ReportFTfm: Pensions
    Tomorrow’s pensioners face up to working — and saving — for longer

    Despite opposition, governments are forcing through changes to make pension systems sustainable

    A group of elderly individuals sit together on a bench in a park, engaging in conversation
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Special ReportFTfm: Pensions
    Plotting a path to pension parity

    The gender gap in retirement savings is a problem for women around the world

    An elderly woman is seated at a desk, writing notes in a notebook. In front of her is an open laptop with a document on the screen, and a cup of tea beside it
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Chinese society
    China to raise retirement age for first time since 1978

    Beijing battles demographic crisis and pressure on pension system by keeping population in workforce for longer

    Two elderly men play Chinese chess at a park in Beijing
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Chris Giles
    Reeves should tackle excessively generous pensions taxation

    The chancellor must be careful not to increase the damaging incentives in the tax system as she seeks sources of revenue

    Senior citizens wrap up warm to do shopping in Northwich
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Data is the key to supporting Britain’s poorest pensioners

    As energy bills rise, bolder reforms are needed to identify the 880,000 households missing out on pension credit

  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Widowed pensioners ‘could be owed thousands’ in UK state pension

    Former minister warns of new group hit by potential underpayments

    A state pension statement
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    UK Budget
    Labour has the UK’s wealthier over-65s in its sights

    Removing winter fuel subsidies for all but the poorest pensioners is the first of many tough choices, the chancellor has warned

    Montage of two pension age people in front of a vote share graphic
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    News in-depthChinese society
    Younger Chinese fume at call to raise retirement age

    Communist party meeting sparks online row as experts warn ageing population makes change ‘inevitable’

    Two women, one young and the other much older, exit a crowded Beijing subway train
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Workplace pensions
    Should you put your state pension into a Sipp?

    Poser for those still working in their late 60s

    Commuters make their way to work in Manchester city centre
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    UK tax
    Number of UK top rate taxpayers set to surpass 1mn for the first time

    Estimate by HM Revenue & Customs highlights the beneficial impact of ‘fiscal drag’ on state coffers

    HMRC
  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    Increased longevity will bring profound social change

    People will have to work longer and pension systems will need to be transformed

    A bar chart that rises and falls, with depictions of young and progressively older men on each block
  • Sunday, 24 March, 2024
    UK general election
    Conservatives to retain UK pension triple lock in manifesto

    Chancellor’s pledge paves way for protection of pensioners until end of decade, despite strains on public finances

  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    UK Inequality
    UK government faces multibillion pound bill over pension inequality

    Ombudsman finds changes to state pension age was mishandled, affecting millions of women

    Protesters outside the Houses of Parliament holding up banners objecting to state pension age change for women in October 2018
  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
    Labour under pressure over state pension age rises

    Union leaders call for planned increases to be scrapped

    An elderly man walks under a bridge next to a canal
  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    Pension automatic enrolment
    Reforms to extend UK workplace pensions to young people ‘stuck in limbo’

    Minister makes no commitment to when measures that received cross-party support will be rolled out

    A young mechanic works on a car’s engine
  • Friday, 15 December, 2023
    Cyber Security
    MPs warn over new powers to inspect pensioners’ bank accounts

    Government says measures would be used to target fraud

    Work and pensions secretary Mel Stride
  • Monday, 9 October, 2023
    UK employment
    Unwell over-50s at risk of poverty unless benefits rise, study finds

    Health Foundation research comes as Sunak vows to curb growing number of people claiming sickness benefits ahead of pension age rise

  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Pensions
    Rollout of auto enrolled pensions for under-22s likely in 2025

    Government set to launch a consultation on key policy change

    Car mechanic balancing car wheels in an auto repair shop
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