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THE parliamentary ombudsman has accused ministers of misrepresenting her report which blamed the government for misleading people over the security of final salary pensions.

ATTITUDES towards work will have to change before ministers attempt to raise the state pension age, Help the Aged says.

THE DAILY Telegraph Group has scrapped plans to outsource its pension administration and signed a new deal with Profund Solutions instead.

LOSING Stephen Timms as pensions reform minister is a "tragic loss", Simplification Report author Alan Pickering says.

THE GOVERNMENT'S refusal to give a male-to-female transsexual pension rights at the age of 60 was illegal, the European Court of Justice has ruled.

ICI injects £122m

RESPONSIBILITY for the Local Government Pension Scheme has transferred to the new department for communities and local government after prime minister Tony Blair's reshuffle.

TAX-FREE cash deals for workers willing to give up final salary benefits could lead to a "trustee witch hunt" in years to come, experts warn.

PRIME minister Tony Blair's "night of the long knives" Cabinet reshuffle seems to have lit a fire under the department for work and pensions.

GLOBAL equity was the most popular sector for new mandates among UK pension funds last year, new research reveals.