Legislation

Early auto-enrolment could increase pension pots by as much as 15% and help employers, industry figures say.

Political consensus around personal accounts is losing cohesion, pensions minister Angela Eagle admits.

HM Revenue & Customs will go out to consultation on amendments to A-Day regulations that threaten members' tax free cash on wind-up for the second time, PP has learned.

Aviva has called on the government to scrap higher rate tax relief on pensions and introduce a blanket unified relief rate of 30%.

Conservative Party plans to accelerate the increase in the state retirement age have been backed by senior industry figures.

The next government should introduce an independent pensions commission to provide long-term continuity over pensions policy, a PP survey reveals.

There will be an ongoing process of automatic re-enrolment into personal accounts, pensions minister Angela Eagle says.

Personal accounts are a "scandal waiting to happen" should the government not reassess the means testing regime, Friends Provident chief executive Trevor Matthews says.

The High Court has ruled it is legal for employers to force workers to retire at the age of 65.

The Conservatives will restore the link between earnings and the level of the basic state pension should they win next year's general elections, David Cameron says.