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More than half the nation sees compulsory pension contributions as a possible solution to tackling the country's £57bn pensions shortfall, suggests research.

UK firm Selectapension is launching an online service it claims will enable advisers to determine the amount of money needed by their clients for a secure retirement.

Work and pensions secretary Alan Johnson seems to have contradicted his own boss by issuing qualified support to LibDem proposals for a non-means-tested ‘citizens' pension'.

The government has received the backing from MPs' for its Civil Partnership Bill, with junior Scottish minister, Anne McGuire announcing late on Tuesday that same-sex couple's in future will be able to benefit from deceased partners' public service pensions....

Graduates could double their retirement income if they start saving as soon as they complete their studies, according to research by HSBC published in the same week as the Pension report.Research by HSBC to the benefits of saving from an early age could...

Employees are most likely to use cash methods as an alternative when incurring a tax charge under the new pensions Lifetime Allowance (LTA), research by Watson Wyatt suggests.

Qualified praise has been heaped on the Pension Commission's report by government ministers, opposition spokespeople and industry associations.

A major challenge facing state retirement income provision is to eliminate the current system of means-testing, suggests comments in response to the Turner report.

Women face particular challenges obtaining decent retirement income because of existing rules based on outdated assumptions of family units, lower average wages, lower employment rates, and more part-time work.

Analysis of the arguments for and against compulsion will be a key area for the Pensions Commission to consider between now and the publication of its second report in autumn 2005.