Scottish Widows welcomes women's pension help line

TPAS designed the help line, which runs for six weeks from 4 February, to help women better understand their pension position and options. It says the launch responds to lower pay for women than men and family-related broken career patterns. Malcolm McLean, chief executive of TPAS, says: "We will do our utmost to explain the changes and provide what other help we can, unbiased and free of charge, to women who want to avail themselves of our service.” Ian Naismith, head of pensions market development at Scottish Widows, says: "Our report, What Women Need, revealed that the gender gap in...