Department for Work & Pensions

The Pensions Regulator has published a discussion paper on how it should support the defined contribution (DC) market in the delivery of good outcomes for savers.

The Department for Work and Pensions is set to take action to stop firms using differences between defined contribution regulations to cut scheme costs.

In the second part of our run-down of the top 20 most read Professional Pensions Online news articles in 2010, we look at the 10 most popular stories of the year.

In the first part of our run-down of the top 20 most read Professional Pensions Online news articles in 2010, we look at those in eleventh to twentieth place.

More than 2 million people who are already over the age of 50 will reach their 100th birthday, latest Department for Work and Pensions analysis reveals.

The DWP will look into improving annuity rates for people with pension pots of under £5,000, pensions minister Steve Webb says.

The government has hit problems with the reform of the state pension due to contracting-out complications and will now delay releasing its planned consultation, Ros Altmann says.

An industry-wide consultation on the RPI to CPI switch will be issued tomorrow, Steve Webb says.

Schemes with less than 1,000 members tend to face higher running costs per member, Department for Work and Pensions research shows.

The exclusion of micro-employers from auto-enrolment was ruled out due to the number of employees that would be excluded and because of "substantial" practical issues.