Pensions Commission

Faster than expected decline of open DB leads to calls for DC policy upgrade to improve outcomes

Auto-enrolment reforms have transformed the UK’s pension system. Nick Reeve looks at latest research examining the lessons to be learned from the process.

This week’s 102 Pensions Buzz respondents were in agreement that a permanent pensions commission should be formed.

As both centre-left and centre-right political think tanks agree on the need for a pensions commission, Gregg McClymont says this could provide a refreshed model for future pensions policy.

Pensions Buzz peers agreed with pensions and financial inclusion minister Guy Opperman and former shadow chancellor Ed Balls that now might be the time for a fresh commission.

This week we want to know if the Pension Commission's predictions have been delivered ten years since its final report, and whether auto-escalation contributions should be increased further.

The criticism of Ros Altmann by Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) has been unfair according to PP research.

This week we want to know if the criticism of Ros Altmann on the women's state pension age has been fair and whether the view public sector pensions are unfairly generous is correct.

It has been ten years since The Pensions Commission delivered its final report. Padraig Floyd asks how it has influenced the landscape.