State pension

Pensions minister Steve Webb is to use the Pensions Bill to change the structure of benefits given to people who delay taking the state pension.

Chancellor George Osborne has said he will cap the country's welfare budget each year for the next four years from April 2015 - but the state pension will not be included.

The government's response to the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) restrictions is likely to be addressed in the passage of the Pensions Bill.

The pensions industry must prove to government that it is "part of the solution to the pensions issue and not the problem," the director of life, pensions and savings for the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has said.

The CBI's Neil Carberry calls for pensions stability

The Confederation of British Industry has called on the government to allow employers time to adapt to pension reform before introducing any more new measures.

The government should focus on improving defined contribution (DC) provision in developing the defined ambition agenda, according to the TUC.

The Pensions Bill will introduce a £144 flat-rate state pension from April 2016, the Queen's Speech confirmed today.

Pension minister Steve Webb's decision to stop foreign spouses claiming UK state pension based on their husband or wife's history of National Insurance contributions is 'cynical' and a knee-jerk reaction to UKIP's election success, deVere Group has said....

Economic secretary to the Treasury Sajid Javid has denied that bringing forward the end of contracting out by one year was motivated by the expected £5bn boost to the Exchequer.