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The Treasury is set to allow pensioners to withdraw small personal pensions as cash.

The Treasury will not axe tax relief on compensation for certain previous pension mis-selling cases as previously planned.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has laid out six principles for defined contribution (DC) pensions to address the current "mixed" standards across the market.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called for state pension benefits to be means-tested in a move which would see wealthier older people having to pay for certain services currently available to them free of charge.

The government's proposed cuts to public sector pensions will not go far enough to plug the schemes' funding gaps, Labour peer Lord Hutton has warned.

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has to bring in urgent reforms to ensure SSAS schemes are not penalised by new requirements under the Pensions Act, says Rowanmoor Pensions.

Administering auto-enrolment is an "absolute nightmare" for large employers, according to Marks & Spencer.

SIPP firm Dentons has appointed John Moret - dubbed 'Mr SIPP' - as a non-executive director.

As up to two million public sector workers strike over pensions, thousands took to the streets in central London.

As public sector workers go on strike today, Mark Poulson, director of the Lang Cat, cuts out the political rhetoric and strips down the public sector pensions issue to cold hard numbers.