Pensions credit is 'too complex'

The proposed pensions credit is too complex and the Government needs to simplify policy rather than introduce more means testing, an influential think-tank has told the Government. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) gave evidence at the Department of Work and Pensions select committee last week. The think-tank told the Government it should raise the Basic State pension to the minimum income guarantee and restore the earnings link instead of introducing the pension credit. This would have the benefit of ending pensioner poverty and would make pensions simpler as there ...