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Prudential has paid an IFA for advice needed by a customer who received a correction payment on their Scottish Amicable pension, after IFAonline highlighted the case.

The government this week passed legislation which officially ended contracting out of defined contribution (DC) pension schemes from April 2012.

The DWP has launched one last consultation on auto-enrolment before the pensions bill becomes law.

Aegon UK is to cut 213 jobs and outsource a further 106 within its life and pensions business as part of a cost-cutting exercise.

Phil Clarke, technical services manager at Rowanmoor Pensions, examines the government's decision not to allow early access to pension schemes.

Pensions minister Steve Webb said the proposals to change the state pension age will be reconsidered.

Chief executives of the UK's largest companies will receive official notification of their auto-enrolment responsibilities from The Pensions Regulator this week.

At last policyholders know when the compensation they have argued for a decade will start to flow.

SIPP and SSAS provider Curtis Banks has bought rival Montpelier Pension Administration Services (MPAS) for an undisclosed sum.

The government should allow investors to move assets between different wrappers more easily to aid retirement saving, Tom McPhail, head of pensions research at Hargreaves Lansdown said.