Ros Altmann

The government's move to cap pension charges ignores annuity contract 'cowboys' who are ripping off retirees, the Telegraph claims.

The country's current pension system sees workers enrolled into "risky and inflexible" funds and must be modernised to ensure millions of people are not failed, according to Ros Altmann.

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Ros Altmann is to step down from her post as director-general of Saga.

After consulting on options for changing Retail Prices Index, the Office for National Statistics has chosen 'none of the above' and proposed a new index to be published in parallel.

Making the winter fuel allowance a means-tested benefit to help fund long-term care would discourage people from saving and worsen the pension credit crisis in future, a commentator has said.

Fiona Murphy asks whether the flat rate state pension will go ahead.

Saga director general Ros Altmann has said the maths behind the Retail Prices Index (PRI) is not wrong and the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) proposal to change it is solely about the government reducing costs.

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