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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has calculated that people retiring under the new state pension will be worse off as time goes on.

Pensions minister Ros Altmann will be quizzed by the Work and Pensions Select Committee today as part of an ongoing inquiry into the new state pension.

MPs have criticised the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) over its communication of pension reforms and called for urgent changes to the information being sent to people approaching retirement.

As the campaign Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign gathers pace, the DWP still refuses to budge

The government has rejected calls for more help for women hit particularly hard by state pension equalisation, despite a backbench motion calling for transitional arrangements receiving unanimous backing in parliament.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) committee is to hear further evidence on the new state pension this month.

The Department for Work and Pensions should establish a permanent contact to whom the industry can send suggestions on how to reduce the regulatory burden, the Society of Pension Professionals says.

Respondents to this week's Pensions Buzz survey have asked Father Christmas for a government promise of no more pension regulations in the immediate future.

Politicians will take part in a debate in the new year on how women have been affected by the equalisation of the state pension age (SPA) on the back of concerns.

The 0.75% charge cap has been branded ‘nonsense' after government research found most providers could not calculate charges not covered by the limit that members were paying.