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Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith will announce today the government is ready to reform the state pension to a flat-rate payment.

The DWP is on the verge of announcing its plans for a new state pension system, Ros Altmann, director general of Saga says.

State pension forecasts sent out to people approaching retirement are so complicated even financial advisers do not understand them, pensions minister Steve Webb says.

Disability campaigners have hit back at government plans that will see banks pay less than disabled people to cut the national deficit.

More than 9,000 dead British expats continued to receive their state pension last year, it has been revealed.

Shadow pensions minister Rachel Reeves has been named in the Institute for Public Policy Research's (IPPR) Northern Lights Top 50 list.

Employee benefit consultancy Xafinity has slammed the DWP's review of regulation around trust-based pension schemes.

The government has called for evidence to review the regulatory differences between trust-based and contract-based defined contribution (DC) pension schemes.

The new ESA statistics are being abused but, says Owain Thomas, they could spur IP sales.

Labour has slammed the coalition government for dithering over plans to introduce a flat rate state pension after it shelved the launch of a consultation last year.