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The government must move forward with the Pensions Bill before the summer recess, Labour pensions spokeswoman Rachel Reeves says.

The Financial Services Authority has changed its handbook to ensure consumers continue to be protected in the "significantly changed pensions landscape" after 2012.

Government will launch a formal consultation on legislation to overhaul section 75 debt regulations over the summer, the DWP has confirmed to PP.

The Department for Work and Pensions has issued non-regulatory guidance on offering a default fund for auto-enrolment defined contribution schemes.

Department for Work and Pensions employees are set to ballot for strike action over changes to their pensions recommended in Lord Hutton's commission report.

Draft guidance on auto-enrolment certification does not clarify nuances around salary sacrifice and opt-out inducements, leaving some employees in a "netherworld", a lawyer says.

Auto-enrolment guidance leaves salary sacrifice unadressed

Michael Bow looks at the debate over the costing of the National Employment Savings Trust

Pensions minister Steve Webb has defended the green paper on simplifying the state pension, saying the proposals would provide better outcomes for women.

Switching pension uprating to Consumer Prices Index is the biggest "raid" on pensions since the change to scheme corporation tax arrangements in 1997, a trade union says.