state pension

Introducing a flat-rate state pension of £140 per week by 2016 will make five million pensioners worse off, the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) said.

Jonathon Howard takes a look at potential changes to the state pension.

British pensioners living overseas have collectively lost out on a potential €13bn shortfall in their income since the global recession hit due to the falling strength of sterling against the euro, reports foreign exchange broker HiFX.

At last night's second reading of the Pensions Bill Iain Duncan Smith and Steve Webb gave two tantilising hints of softer reforms.

The government's "transitional arrangements" to help women hit hardest by the Pensions Bill could involve a pension credit concession, according to Tom McPhail, head of pensions research at Hargreaves Lansdown.

Iain Duncan Smith this evening said there would be no u-turn on controversial proposals to raise the women's state pension age (SPA) to 66 by 2020.

Around 20% of women aged 50 to 53 believe they will receive their state pension at 60, although their actual state pension age (SPA) is 65 and may be changed to 66.

A group of expatriates fighting for their pensions to be indexed equally with those of UK pensioners has taken the campaign to Parliament.

It's our quick-fire round-up of the stangest retirement and pensions news this week...

A mother and daughter kept the corpse of a grandmother hidden in an upstairs bedroom and stole her state pension, a judge ruled.