Review of State Pension Age Report
After over a year of looking at a wide range of evidence, and meeting many individuals and organisations, John Cridland’s Independent Review of the State Pension age has published its final report....
View ArticleThe ‘triple lock’ and intergenerational fairness
Today Age UK launches its General Election campaign – Dignity in Older Age (www.ageuk.org.uk/generalelection) – which aims to tackle some of the key issues that millions of older people continue to...
View ArticlePension scams: not quite there yet
From medieval conmen persuading people to hand over hard cash for worthless ‘holy relics’, to Charles Ponzi promising amazing returns on the back of earlier victims’ money, fraudsters have always been...
View ArticleLow earners losing out in pensions
Blog written by Christopher Brooks, Senior Policy Manager, Age UK Since 2012, employees have been automatically enrolled into their employer’s pension scheme, which has meant that nearly 10 million...
View ArticleWhy the Government is wrong to change the pension credit rules
Blog written by Caroline Abrahams, Charity Director, Age UK It was early Monday evening: darkness had fallen and in Westminster all attention was on the ‘meaningful vote’ in Parliament the following...
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