DWP: Trials to boost pensions for self-employed to be launched 'imminently'

Kim Kaveh
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will develop and test new ways to include 4.8 million self-employed workers in pension savings.

Under plans unveiled today (18 December), the new approaches will allow the self-employed - who make up around 15% of the UK's working population - to save for short-, medium- and long-term financi...

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