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The Workplace Retirement Income Commission (WRIC) will deliver its final report four months early.

The pensions advice community has rejected calls for the outright banning of some trail commission payments.

The Treasury today set out the government's progress on public service pension reform - announcing consultations and plans for talks with unions.

The government is considering phasing in the 3.2 percentage point increase in public sector workers' pension contributions over three years, a slower pace than previously planned.

MPs pensions will be subject to the same reforms as the wider public sector and a new scheme will be launched in 2015, the leader of the Commons said.

Replacing tax relief on pensions with a matched savings scheme and setting up a "no-lose lottery" could help plug Britain's savings gap, a think tank said.

The low charges set by the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) will set a benchmark with which pension providers will have to compete, Legal & General (L&G) said.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has promised that the goverment will create a transitional arrangement for women hit hardest by the rise in the state pension age (SPA).

Has enough consideration been given to the effectiveness of auto-enrolment?

The Pensions Ombudsman's (PO) team of legal investigators has been understaffed by a third over the last year due to government restrictions on recruitment.