Law and Regulation

Stephen Lloyd MP has called on the secretary of state for work and pensions to investigate the pensions transfer market and ban contingent charging.

Pension cold-callers will face tougher sanctions from today as a long-awaited ban poses fines of up to £500,000 for "callous crooks" attempting to scam savers.

Despite the gloom around Brexit and all the challenges facing pensions, there are plenty of reasons to be cheerful. Top industry commentators tell Stephanie Baxter why there is cause for optimism

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has amended draft no-deal Brexit regulations to remove a provision which would have made scheme investments illegal.

Capping the pension tax-free lump sum at £40,000 would raise £2bn a year for the government, new research by the Resolution Foundation suggests.

The pensions minister says the new guidance body will help younger generations become the savvy savers of tomorrow.

NOW Pensions' director of policy says this will be the year when the net-pay anomaly becomes too awkward to ignore, and predicts LISA will have its own lifetime curtailed

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) hopes to conclude compensation payments to its members receiving less than 50% of their original benefit entitlements between April and summer this year, so long as it can collect the necessary information.

An accounts manager is to be prosecuted on suspicion of misleading The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to hide a failure to provide workplace pensions at a string of restaurants.

Uber drivers have had their pension rights confirmed once more after the Court of Appeal ruled they should be classed as workers and entitled to associated rights.