Comment - minimum retirement age

As I write this article we have a new coalition government and the ex-leader of the Conservative party, Mr. Iain Duncan Smith has been appointed as the new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. Now Mr Duncan Smith obviously has a lot in his "In Tray" to deal with in the coming weeks and months. We are likely to see new policy introduced in areas such as the compulsory annuitisation age, the state pension age and tax relief on pension contributions, to name just three. In this short article however I would like to add another item to Mr Duncan Smith's pending pile which I will classif...