Retirement

Apathy is the biggest deterrent for UK workers aged under 34 when deciding about a pension, claims B&CE Benefit Schemes.

Government policy on personal accounts may have to be "revisited" if the Thoresen review into generic advice fails to identify a short, simple and easy to understand way of providing information on whether to opt-in or out of personal accounts, warns...

The Information Tribunal has scheduled a full two-day hearing to decide whether the Treasury should be made to reveal detailed information about the effects on pension schemes of the removal of tax relief on dividends in 1997.

Pension campaigners have pointed out the extra money earmarked for the Financial Assistance Scheme in the Budget will only increase the total of the fund to £1.9bn, not the £8bn stated by Gordon Brown.

Alternatively Secured Pensions are still a useful retirement planning tool, despite the industry's failure to achieve any tax concessions from the Treasury, claims Winterthur Life.

Gordon Brown's decision to cut the basic rate of income tax to 20% was clearly signposted by the proposals for tax relief on personal accounts, claims Standard Life.

The government is being ‘optimistic' about the amount of new savings which will be generated by personal accounts, claims Aegon Scottish Equitable.

Rowanmoor pensions has criticised the government's decision to levy additional tax charges on scheme pensions and annuities to stop pension funds being passed on after death.

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The government's decision to extend the Financial Assistance Scheme for workers who lost their pensions when their employers collapsed, is just more political spin, says a leading pensions campaigner.