Legislation

Auto-enrolment staging dates and contribution increases for thousands of firms will be delayed or changed, the pensions minister confirms.

The Treasury must create instruments focussed specifically on the needs of pension schemes if it is to persuade them to invest up to £50bn in infrastructure, argue industry figures.

Calls to lift the annual indexation cap from Financial Assistance Scheme compensation have been dismissed by pensions minister Steve Webb during a Parliamentary debate.

The Department for Work and Pensions is set to spend £10m on communications to ensure auto-enrolment is a success, pensions minister Steve Webb says.

Sackers associate Fuat Sami looks at changes to compulsory annuitisation law

The government should retain a fixed revaluation rate of 4% calculating guaranteed minimum pensions for early leavers, the Society of Pension Consultants recommends.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has hinted at the potential development of a national transfer system to help consolidate small pension pots.

The Pension Protection Fund has finalised how it will equalise guaranteed minimum pensions and started a six-month pilot project to test its methodology.

Anna Copestake of Sackers discusses legal issues around statutory employers.

The latest Pensions Act brings measures designed to make auto-enrolment more financially palatable for employers into force.