Is state pension reform in jeopardy?

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Fiona Murphy asks whether the flat rate state pension will go ahead.

‘Take a chill-pill," said pensions minister Steve Webb at the recent Professional Pensions show, when asked about state pension reform. He might be feeling relaxed about the delivery of the White Paper on the introduction of a flat rate state pension but industry were right to question him. Earlier on in the year he had announced the white paper was going to be postponed from spring to autumn. He cryptically said it was going to be "minty green" - hinting at a consultation rather than a solution. Adding to uncertainty, rumours abounded that prime minister David Cameron had reconsid...

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