State pension

Ministers to outline plans for £140-a-week state pension; BA pension trustee quits over CPI move; We want to work past 65, insists pensions minister

The planned single-tier state pension will be at least £155 if the reform is introduced by the end of the parliament in 2015/16, forecasts show.

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Chancellor George Osborne confirmed the government will implement a single-tier state pension.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development today recommends the UK government further increases the state pension age to combat rising costs.

The National Association of Pension Funds is once more pressuring government to increase issuance of long-dated and index-linked gilts to help schemes better match liabilities.

Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has laid out plans for basic state pension reform in a bid to create a "state pensions system fit for a 21st century welfare system".

Government risks accusations of a ‘mis-selling scandal' unless it matches auto-enrolment reform with a revamp of the state pension, the National Association of Pension Funds says.

Government failure to reveal plans for a £140 universal state pension has weakened the coalition's Pensions Bill, leaving it like "Hamlet without the prince", Baroness Hollis says.

Employment rates for people beyond State Pension Age remained resilient throughout the 2008 recession - bucking the trend of the rest of the workforce, statistics reveal.