state pension

The default retirement age (DRA) must be abolished without delay to avoid a negative impact on the economy as a whole, according to Ros Altmann, director general of Saga.

Over 90% of advisers say a lack of information from the government prevents them fully understanding the relationship between state benefits and equity release, Safe Home Income Plans (SHIP) says.

The controversial bill to raise the French state pension age from 60 to 62 will face a vote in the lower house of parliament today following approval in the senate yesterday.

The State pension age will reach 66 by 2020, Chancellor George Osborne said today.

Enabling people to work one more year after the state pension age could result in a GDP increase of 1% or £13bn, says L&G's Adrian Boulding

A woman who had a sex-change operation 10 years ago has won her battle to receive a pension from the age of 60.

Nigel Waterson, the Tory pensions minister, has lost the Eastbourne seat he has held for 18 years to the Liberal Democrats.

Royal London new life and pensions business increased by more than 50% in Q1 this year, led by a strong performance from its pensions arm Scottish Life.

Re-linking pensions with earnings will not profit retirees as much as knowledge of the open market option (OMO), says Hargreaves Lansdown's Tom McPhail.

Contracting-out of the state second pension is to be abolished from 6 April 2012, the Government has confirmed.