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    • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
      Ministers delay plan to lift UK state pension age to 68 as life expectancy falls

      Tory MPs worried move would spark backlash after retirement tax break for wealthy

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Pensions
      Deadline extended for boosting UK state pension

      Chance to pay missing national insurance payments as far back as 2006

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Oliver Ralph
      Time to deal with the ‘nastiest, hardest problem in finance’

      UK government needs to avert slow-motion pensions crisis by ensuring retirees are properly advised

    • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
      UK economic growth
      UK urged to curb pension freedoms to boost workforce

      Resolution Foundation seeks rethink on ‘regressive’ tax breaks helping top earners to retire early

    • Monday, 6 February, 2023
      Pensions industry
      Ministers urged to limit ‘generous’ UK pension reliefs for highest earners

      IFS says cutting 25% tax-free lump sum would allow government to raise contribution allowances

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      South Korea Economy
      South Korea’s pension fund forecast to run out in 2055 as demographic crisis hits

      Ageing population and underemployment add to pressures as Seoul pushes for reform

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      Camilla Cavendish
      The retirement revolution is only just beginning

      Expectation of a long and healthy old age is unequally distributed, piling up advantages for the affluent

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Workplace pensions
      ‘High-earning men face a state pension shortfall’

      Top 10 per cent male earners pay more in national insurance than they get in retirement benefit, study reveals

    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Emmanuel Macron’s indispensable pensions overhaul

      Raising the retirement age is necessary but fraught with political challenges

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      News in-depthFrench politics
      ‘We must work longer’: Macron prepares for fight over French pensions reform

      Passing law on retirement system is test of whether president can deliver on his second-term agenda

    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      French economy
      France struggles to keep older workers in the labour market

      Macron wants to raise retirement age but over-55s say they face barriers to employment

    • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      UK yet to compensate 200,000 for state pension underpayment

      Shortfall first flagged 2 years ago affects mainly older women who did not receive automatic uplifts

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      Moira O'Neill
      A comfortable retirement is being sacrificed for many

      Jeremy Hunt has put saver and investor plans in the deep freeze

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
      Pension automatic enrolment
      Lost UK pension pots soar to 2.8mn

      £26.6bn has gone missing as more workers move jobs and home

    • Friday, 21 October, 2022
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      Lettuce pray for our personal finances

      Future for tax, pensions and energy policy has been tossed into the political salad spinner

    • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
      Demographics and population
      Tax traps warning for over-65s returning to work

      UK pensioners in employment at a record 1.4mn in June

    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      Workplace pensions
      UK government wins pension fund legal challenge over change to RPI

      BT, Ford and Marks and Spencer pension schemes argued the new CPHI measure would leave pensioners worse off

    • Friday, 12 August, 2022
      David Pitt-Watson
      Rewrite the rules of the UK’s private pension system

      Retirement income could be boosted by 30 per cent with collective defined contribution schemes

    • Monday, 8 August, 2022
      Ian Goldin
      Demography is not destiny

      But public policy must be informed by a recognition of the effects of falling birth rates

    • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
      John Ralfe
      Collective pensions: there’s little protection in the crowd

      Policymakers would do better to focus on improvements to individual defined contribution schemes

    • Sunday, 19 June, 2022
      Rise in UK state pension age has doubled poverty rates among 65-year-olds, says think-tank

      IFS analysis shows reforms led to sharp increase in British households living in financial hardship

    • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
      Personal Finance
      Older women wrongly denied more than £4,000 in state pension

      Cases emerge of DWP processing errors relating to those who paid the ‘married woman’s stamp’

    • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      A jubilee year for the state pension?

      Through the generations, women need to ensure they will have cause to celebrate in retirement

    • Monday, 16 May, 2022
      Pension Protection Fund
      Pension lifeboat fund rules leave 83,000 with no cover for rising UK inflation

      Ministers urged to review PPF policy for elderly members exposed to cost of living crisis

    • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
      Robert Merton
      We need new savings options to ward off retirement funding crisis

      As social security faces numerous solvency and structural issues, we must turn to fresh strategies

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