Morrison's guide to the plethora of retirement consultations

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It had to happen I suppose. The luxury of sitting, discussing and trying to make sense of all the recent pension and related consultations is now over. Now for the reckoning - the responses!

Just for the record we have had: The consultation on tax relief. The consultation on age 75 and annuitisation. The consultation on changing the state pension age. The consultation on phasing out of the default retirement age. The review of auto enrolment and National Employment Savings Trust. The review of public sector pensions. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) consultation on contracting out. The European Union Green Paper on pensions. Forgive me if I have forgotten anything, but I think that’s enough to be going on with anyway! We have just had...

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