Pensions

Money News: MPs in narrow rejection of pensions 'lifeboat' for stranded workers

Published: 22 April 2007

Proposals to bolster a "lifeboat fund" to help 125,000 workers who lost their final salary pensions when their companies folded were rejected in the House of Commons last week.

James Daley: No sign of cuddly Gordon on pensions

Published: 21 April 2007

Gordon Brown is a pretty nasty piece of work. Over the past three years, he has done everything in his power to prevent the Government having to provide financial help to the 125,000 people who lost their occupational pensions when their companies went bust. And every concession that has finally been made, every penny that has eventually been paid, has come only after a lengthy battle.

How to take control of your own pension

Published: 14 April 2007

More and more savers are running their own portfolio. Is it worth it, asks James Daley

Sam Dunn: Brown's tax grab casts new light on our pensions

Published: 08 April 2007

The action taken in 1997 cost pension funds around £5bn a year

Ros Altmann: Britain's pension victims have been betrayed yet again

Published: 01 April 2007

The worst pension scandal in UK history drags on.

Wealth Check: 'Which of my pension schemes should I follow up?'

Published: 24 March 2007

Joseph Allan is based in Edinburgh, where he works in an architect's practice. Several years ago, he joined the pension scheme offered by his first employer but he was unable to transfer the savings when he changed jobs. After beginning a second plan with a new employer, he was made redundant and has not made pension savings for 18 months.

Pensions: Most pensioners will feel the benefit

Published: 22 March 2007

Nearly 600,000 pensioners will no longer have to pay income tax. The personal allowance for all single people aged 65 to 74 will increase by £270, to £7,550, or £7,690 for those aged 75 or over. Pensioner couples will see their allowances go up by slightly less.

Pension Funds: More help for failed schemes dismissed as 'not enough'

Published: 22 March 2007

The Government has finally caved into pressure to increase compensation payouts to the 125,000 people who lost their pensions when their companies went bust, pledging to pump an extra £6bn into its Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS).

Have you seen the light on sunset savings?

Published: 04 March 2007

Only the lucky few can rest on their pension pots. Most of us need to put cash by - now

After the pensions victory, the wait goes on

Published: 25 February 2007

Final salary campaigners win their case in the High Court - but the Government is in no hurry to pay up

Wealth Check: 'My pension is set to fall short when I retire'

Published: 03 February 2007

Stephen Fitzgerald retired three years ago and expects his 62-year-old wife Linda will follow suit later this year. The couple are concerned about whether their retirement income will cover their outgoings once Linda stops work.

Sam Dunn: Pension punch-up: back the underdog

Published: 28 January 2007

Some fights just seem to go on for ever. Last week, the protagonists in a battle over compensation for workers deprived of pension income through no fault of their own staggered from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and back towards the UK High Court.

Money News: Regulator warns workers against sleepwalking from final salary schemes

Published: 28 January 2007

Workers offered rewards to switch out of their pension fund must consider the financial implications carefully, the Pensions Regulator has warned.

Nic knack: how much do you really need to pay to get the state pension?

Published: 07 January 2007

Confusion reigns over the number of years required for voluntary national insurance contributions

Pensions: The fears behind the fanfare

Published: 17 December 2006

Millions could lose their entitlement to benefits under the much-hyped national pension savings scheme

Sam Dunn: A year of misbehaving by our financial masters

Published: 17 December 2006

Worst was the Government's refusal to help workers with failed pensions

The Big Question: Should everyone be forced to save for their retirement?

Published: 13 December 2006

Why is this important now?

Brown goes for breath of fresh air - but the pension party ends before it began

Published: 10 December 2006

The pre-Budget report played the green card but the Chancellor dealt a bad hand to financial providers

Sam Dunn: The hard road to 'soft compulsion' on saving

Published: 10 December 2006

Will companies reduce their own pension provision?

Pensions: Anger as savings loophole shut for elderly

Published: 07 December 2006

Pension specialists attacked Gordon Brown last night after the Chancellor announced a crackdown on alternatively secured pensions (ASPs) that could lead to savers paying tax rates of more than 80 per cent.

Sam Dunn: Ladies and gents, take your seats for the 2006 PBR

Published: 03 December 2006

'The pre-Budget report has a history of surprises'

L&G surprised as 80 per cent ignore its pensions advice

Published: 02 December 2006

More than four in five pension savers with insurer Legal & General have opted to remain contracted out of the State Second Pension (S2P), despite being told that they are likely to be better off if they contract back into the scheme.

Money News: Banks told to show spirit of Christmas to Farepak savers or risk playing Scrooge

Published: 26 November 2006

UK banks and financial services firms that fail to contribute to the compensation fund of the collapsed Christmas savings club Farepak risk "serious damage to the reputation of the whole finance and retail industry".

Sam Dunn: We want an apology. We get an internal audit

Published: 29 October 2006

When any boyhood prank used to go wrong, I would swiftly put into practice a lesson learned early in life from my parents: saying sorry doesn't cost much.

Ask Sindie: Pushing 66, and still paying for a pension