State pension

Jack Jones looks at the Work and Pensions Select Committee’s report on plans to introduce a single tier state pension

IDS' comments on benefits focuseses Helen Morrissey's mind on state pensions

The Work and Pensions Select Committee has hit out at the government for changing the timetable for introducing a single-tier state pension.

Axa is reviewing the viability of maintaining its defined benefit scheme due to an increasing deficit and the additional costs associated with the end of contracting out.

Rachel Dalton analyses the ending of contracting out

Jonathan Stapleton considers how the Budget will affect pensions

Pensions minister Steve Webb has said the abolition of contracting out, brought forward to 2016, does not mean defined ambition proposals must be finished earlier.

The industry has called on pensions minister Steve Webb to publish guidance on defined ambition schemes as the abolition of contracting out has been moved from 2017 to 2016.

The government will implement the single tier state pension a year earlier than planned in 2016, Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed.

As speculation over the budget intensifies, PP brings you the latest hints, tips and rumours.