Politics

Rishi Sunak is the only candidate in the race to become the next Conservative leader and prime minister to unequivocally support current plans for the UK to be net zero for carbon...

It is extraordinarily rare that you get government intervention in financial services that is widely heralded as a good thing. Help to Buy: great for developers, expensive for first time buyers. Pension...

The Department of Work and Pensions has published a new consultation on two issues relating to the pensions dashboards.  These cover the way in which the ‘go-live’ date will be announced, alongside...

Minimum auto-enrolment contributions should rise to 12 per cent over the next decade, with  access to these workplace pensions being widened, according to a new report published today by the Association of...

Raising the state pension age from 65 to 66 has resulted in around 100,000 people ending up in poverty according to a new study by the Institute of Fiscal Studies. This is...

Former pensions minister Baroness Ros Altman is calling for the government to rethink increases to the state pension age, after new research shows changes are leaving a quarter of pensioners in poverty....

Insurers have been supportive of a new Department of Work and Pensions initiative designed to increase the uptake of pension credit. It is hoped Pension Credit awareness day — which is today...

Guy Opperman has become the longest-serving pension minister, having been in the post for five years today. This is the longest period that one person has held this role, since the post...

The Department of Work and Pension has raised the possibility of Nest offering income drawdown and a far wider range of retirement options, as part of its consultation on helping savers understand...

Despite a huge correction exercise currently being undertaken by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) on historic state pension awards, errors are still being made on new state pension awards according...