Treasury

The Commons Public Accounts Committee has questioned the validity of Treasury cost projections for public sector scheme changes, saying it did not fully test the impact of its assumptions.

The Treasury will not allow the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to alter the proposals for raising the state pension age (SPA), a pensions lawyer said.

The US treasury is battling to slash spending after the country's national debt soared to $14trn, reaching a self-imposed limit set by Congress last century.

At last policyholders know when the compensation they have argued for a decade will start to flow.

The government should allow investors to move assets between different wrappers more easily to aid retirement saving, Tom McPhail, head of pensions research at Hargreaves Lansdown said.

The Treasury will not use tax incentives to encourage more workplace saving for retirement, Tom McPhail, head of pensions research at Hargeaves Lansdown said.

The government has confirmed its moratorium on new regulation for small businesses does not affect ongoing or future activities by the FSA.

The government must create financial incentives to use ISAs such as a National Insurance (NI) break, according to Hymans Robertson.

The government's probe into allowing early access was a political rather than practical move and the Treasury knew the idea would be rejected, a lawyer has claimed.

The pension industry has welcomed the Treasury's rejection of early access to pensions and supports reform of trivial commutation.