State pension

The government has hit problems with the reform of the state pension due to contracting-out complications and will now delay releasing its planned consultation, Ros Altmann says.

Government plans for a universal state pension of £140 a week remove the last justification for National Insurance contributions, a think tank claims.

The government has today detailed plans on how the state pension age will rise to 66 by 2020.

The state pension could be lifted to a £140 per week payment with no means testing, according to new proposals.

Introducing the National Association of Pension Fund's proposal for a simple, single state pension would "really help" the auto-enrolment reforms, Adrian Boulding says.