Legislation

UK - Employers are being urged to provide scheme members with projections of their pension entitlements before the April 2005 deadline in order to avoid a "backlash".

UK - Mellon Financial Corporation is hosting a series of talks on changes outlined in the Pensions Bill.

UK - Compulsory retirement should be scrapped to alleviate the pensions crisis, a study by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development claims.

UK - More than three-quarters of occupational stakeholder schemes are empty boxes, government research shows.

UK - The rate of growth in the flexible benefits market is set to double this year, experts say.

UK - The National Audit Office "manipulated the facts" to reach its estimate that 10,000 people will be affected by the £1.4m savings cap, a consultant claims.

UK - The Pensions Protection Fund will be doomed from the outset without government backing, PMI delegates were warned.

UK - Consultants are sceptical over the government's pledge to relax section 67 of the Pension Act 1995.

UK - Simplification Report author Alan Pickering says that to boost savings, the state pension should be doubled to 40% of average wages and to achieve that, the pension age should be raised from 65 to 68.

UK - Retrospective compensation is "imperative" if the government is to move forward effectively with pension reform, the Pensions Management Institute spring conference was told.