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The Pensions Regulator should speak out against the "rubbish" 8% minimum auto-enrolment contribution, a consultant says.

The expected charging structure for the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) has received a mixed reaction.

Employers and employees must open their eyes to the challenges they face before auto-enrolment is introduced in 2012.

It is now almost four and a half years since Adair Turner laid out the Pension Commission's recommendations for a new policy direction for both State and private pensions.

The Government's continued drive to slash benefit spending takes another step today as new guidance is issued about the incoming ‘fit note'.

The former work and pensions secretary, James Purnell, whose resignation sparked an attempt to topple the Prime Minister, will leave Parliament at the next General Election.

Dr Ros Altmann has accused the Government of making false claims over its pension compensation scheme.

The final rules governing auto-enrolment into workplace pension schemes from 2012 were laid before Parliament today.

Martin Palmer, head of corporate pensions marketing for Friends Provident, hopes to see some better solutions for the pensions arena in 2010.

A department for work and pensions research report on the likely responses of small employers to personal accounts is not "happy reading", a lawyer warns.