Politics

The next government is being urged to scrap pensions tax relief in favour of a ‘savings bonus’ by the cross-party think tank the Social Market Foundation. It claims this would save the...

The Labour Party is understood to have ditched plans to reintroduce the lifetime allowance (LTA) on pensions. This earlier pledge will not appear in the party’s election manifesto, according to report in...

Conservative losses in recent local and mayoral elections, a recent string of by-election defeats and Labour extending its leads in the polls have led many to predict that Sir Keir Starmer will...

Three in four workers (75 per cent) said they were be more likely to vote for a political party that is promising to reform workplace pensions — according to a new survey....

The Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) has elected Stewart Hastie to be its new chair.  He is a senior partner at Isio and takes over from LCP’s Steven Taylor. Hastie, who starts this two...

I marched on 10 Downing Street last month for justice for victims of financial misconduct. My particular experience and expertise relate to pension scams. For the last 10 years I have freely...

The Conservative party has pledged to introduce a “triple lock plus” for pensioners if it wins the general election, effectively meaning the state pension will never be subject to income tax. Currently,...

Key pension reforms are likely to be derailed by decision to call a General Election on 4th July.  This is likely to include legislation to extend auto-enrolment to younger and part-time employees,...

The pensions industry has paid tribute to the former Labour minister and cross bench peer Frank Field, whose death was announced today.  Lord Field was a minister in the Department of Work...

The UK’s first disability ambassador, and a veteran of the protection industry, Johnny Timpson has quit his role as a government advisor on dementia in protest at the DWP’s treatment of unpaid...