State pension

More Britons are working beyond the state pension age as they delay retirement, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.

Pensioner pressure groups have mounted campaigns in Eastleigh in a bid to capture attention as national media focus on the shock by-election.

State pension changes will work with automatic enrolment rules to ensure it actually 'pays to save' for retirement, the pensions minister has said.

State second pensions or state earnings-related pensions will not protected by the triple lock under the new single-tier system, pensions minister Steve Webb has confirmed.

Public sector pensions will cost taxpayers an additional £9bn a year due to a ‘toxic' combination of the Public Service Pensions Bill and state pension reform, a Centre for Policy Studies paper shows.

The Office of Tax Simplification has made a range of recommendations in a bid to make tax simpler for Britain's pensioners.

The government's proposals for the single-tier state pension will be scrutinised by the work and pensions committee over the coming weeks.

The implementation of the single-tier state pension will cost the Exchequer £265m, according to official figures released today.

The state pension reforms announced yesterday have been widely welcomed as a much-needed simplification, but where there are winners, there must be losers.

The introduction of a flat-rate £144 per week state pension will reduce pay-outs for the vast majority of the population in the long run, according to a respected think tank.