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Faced with an ageing population and ballooning costs, Madrid has opted to raise contributions rather than cut benefits
A one-age-fits-all policy benefits the better off.
Institute for Fiscal Studies points to ‘significant long-term challenges from ageing population’
Tory MPs worried move would spark backlash after retirement tax break for wealthy
Chance to pay missing national insurance payments as far back as 2006
UK government needs to avert slow-motion pensions crisis by ensuring retirees are properly advised
Resolution Foundation seeks rethink on ‘regressive’ tax breaks helping top earners to retire early
IFS says cutting 25% tax-free lump sum would allow government to raise contribution allowances
Ageing population and underemployment add to pressures as Seoul pushes for reform
Expectation of a long and healthy old age is unequally distributed, piling up advantages for the affluent
Top 10 per cent male earners pay more in national insurance than they get in retirement benefit, study reveals
Raising the retirement age is necessary but fraught with political challenges
Passing law on retirement system is test of whether president can deliver on his second-term agenda
Macron wants to raise retirement age but over-55s say they face barriers to employment
Shortfall first flagged 2 years ago affects mainly older women who did not receive automatic uplifts
Jeremy Hunt has put saver and investor plans in the deep freeze
£26.6bn has gone missing as more workers move jobs and home
Future for tax, pensions and energy policy has been tossed into the political salad spinner
UK pensioners in employment at a record 1.4mn in June
BT, Ford and Marks and Spencer pension schemes argued the new CPHI measure would leave pensioners worse off
Retirement income could be boosted by 30 per cent with collective defined contribution schemes
But public policy must be informed by a recognition of the effects of falling birth rates
Policymakers would do better to focus on improvements to individual defined contribution schemes
IFS analysis shows reforms led to sharp increase in British households living in financial hardship
Cases emerge of DWP processing errors relating to those who paid the ‘married woman’s stamp’
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