pensions

Pensions specialist Clerical Medical has created an A-Day protection calculator for financial advisers on its IFA website.

Pension experts have called for politicians to leave matters concerning pensions by the formation of a permanent ‘Pension Committee" instead.

Pensions legislation and the process adopted to implement it is now so ‘tremendously confused' it is compounding the pension crisis, Lord Higgins has alleged.

A pensions expert has called for the individual employee savings pots, encouraged by employers, rather than employer-led pension funds to become the way forward.

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Alan Johnson, along with chairman of the Employer Task Force, Sir Peter Davis, will launch a new pensions website this week.

A pension specialist has sounded an urgent call for clarity on new Pensions Protection Fund (PPF) regulations, as new rules are just six weeks away.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has urged people who have not yet claimed their Winter Fuel Payment to check their entitlement ahead of declining weather conditions.

Deloitte has urged pension providers to use simplification as a chance to ‘radically' overhaul administrative platforms, which would embrace a major shake-up in the UK pension system.

UK workers nearest to retirement could be in line to receive a top up to 80% of their scheme pension from the Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS).

The Civil Partnership Act will take effect on 5th December, the Department for Trade and Industry has announced, which opens the way for gay couples to receive financial benefits equal to heterosexual marriages.