Ros Altmann

The Department for Work and Pensions is set to spend £10m on communications to ensure auto-enrolment is a success, pensions minister Steve Webb says.

Trustee boards need a radical overhaul to stamp out the "vested interests" of professional trustees appointed by sponsoring employers, an academic says.

The Bank of England move to undergo a second round of quantitative easing will be a ‘Titanic disaster' for both schemes and pensioners, Saga says.

Graduates auto-enrolled into pensions should be allowed to use their employers' contributions to pay off their debts, Ros Altmann, director-general of Saga, said.

Auto-enrolment queries are beginning to mount for The Pensions Advisory Service and now account for up to 3% of monthly calls.

Replacing tax relief on pensions with a matched savings scheme and setting up a "no-lose lottery" could help plug Britain's savings gap, a think tank says.

The second reading of the Pensions Bill, which will accelerate the state pension age increase for half a million women, will take place today.

Campaigners protesting plans to accelerate the increase in state pension age handed a petition with more than 10,000 signatures to the government yesterday.

Hundreds of pensioners are expected to meet their MPs in a mass lobby organised by AgeUK to protest about the accelerated equalisation of the state pension age.

Radical ideas such as abandoning the term ‘pension' and introducing an industry paid for lottery for savers should be adopted to plug the £9trn retirement savings gap, Ros Altmann says.