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Pension reforms – opportunity and risk
April 2015 will represent a landmark day for pensions, with an end to the requirement to use a pensions ‘pot’ to buy an annuity. For better or for worse, people at point of retirement will hold their...
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Pension Schemes Bill entering final stages
The Pension Schemes Bill has nearly completed its passage through Parliament, taking a step closer this week as Peers considered the Bill at its Report Stage in the Lords. As you’d expect, Age UK has...
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New UK annuity reforms – lessons from the US
This week’s guest blog is from across the Atlantic. David C. John is a senior strategic policy advisor at the AARP Public Policy Institute. AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, with a...
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General Election Series: We want a world where everyone in later life has...
This week’s blog from our General Election Series looks at why ensuring that everyone in later life has enough money is a key part of our ambition for the next Parliament. While Age UK celebrates the...
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A great place to grow older?
Today, we launched our Agenda for Later Life 2015 report, Age UK’s annual assessment of how public policy is meeting the needs of older people. Here, Jane Vass, Head of Public Policy, discuss the...
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Lifetime ISAs – saving for the future?
George Osborne’s 8th Budget was presented as a ‘budget for the next generation’ acknowledging the hopeless situation too many young people find themselves in: struggling to find work, or being in work...
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Building a savings culture
Last month Age UK held a small discussion event with Pensions Minister Ros Altmann, hosted by the think tank Reform. The purpose of the meeting was to have a frank conversation with representatives...
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WASPI women march on Parliament
Hundreds of women are planning to travel to Westminster today to complain to the government and their MPs about unfair changes to their state pensions. Major changes made through successive Pensions...
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Guest blog – Employing a personal care assistant
This week we have a guest blog from The Pensions Regulator which highlights that all employers, including the smallest employers such as those that employ personal care assistants, should check if they...
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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....
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The ‘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...
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Pension 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...
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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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