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Pensions reforms linked to sell-off plans, claims Labour; UK needs £20bn more austerity and retirement at 70 says PwC; Public sector pensions shakeup is part of privatisation plot, Labour warns; Pay gap between public and private sectors ‘widen'

Low-earners are heading for poverty in retirement as official statistics reveal a significant drop in occupational scheme membership levels for men and women.

Rising inflation would prove beneficial to FTSE100 pension schemes if it exceeded current level by just 1.4 percentage points, research reveals.

Employer contributions to funded workplace pensions have risen by £16bn in just two years, as employee contributions plummeted by £3.5bn over the same period, figures show.

Scotland's pension schemes could be inflating deficits due to the use of UK-wide life expectancy estimates that are higher than the Scottish average, Pension Insurance Corporation warns.

More than two-thirds of private sector employees are not enrolled in a workplace pension scheme, statistics reveal.

Employment rates for people beyond State Pension Age remained resilient throughout the 2008 recession - bucking the trend of the rest of the workforce, statistics reveal.

Con Keating looks behind recent scare stories about an unaffordable nation of centenarians to separate fact from fear mongering

The Consumer Price Index is a bad measure for uprating pensions and needs to be replaced with a measure to include housing costs, the Royal Statistical Society says.

Inflation figures published today prove the government is making poor people worse off by using CPI for measuring pension payment increases, Labour says.