Pension trilogy - the UN on pension discrimination; the lifetime allowance; and good and bad news for carers and civil servants - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …
Stop pension discrimination against women, UN warns In a weekend when much of the personal finance media appears to have chosen to focus on the state pension in one form or another, this Sunday Times article highlights how a United Nations (UN) committee has urged the government to take "effective measures" to ensure increases to the state pension age do not discriminate against women born in the 1950s. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has expressed concerns measures to raise the state pension age from 60 to 66 had led to poverty, homelessness and financ...
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