Steve Webb

Legislation curtailing pension charges for deferred members has been announced by pensions minister Steve Webb.

UK - The government has announced a six month delay in the increase in the state pension age in 2020.

The government has announced a six month delay in the increase in the state pension age in 2020.

The National Employment Savings Trust has unveiled some of the 25 employers already using its services.

Steve Webb has reinforced his commitment to auto-enrolment being rolled out in 2012, amid reports the government is considering delaying the reforms.

Almost 100 firms have signed up to use the National Employment Savings Trust as the qualifying scheme ahead of schedule.

There will be a cultural shift as older workers retrain to remain in the workforce longer, Steve Webb says.

Government should do more to open up the middle ground between defined benefit and defined contribution schemes to let "imaginative" hybrid schemes flourish, delegates heard.

Pension schemes will soon find themselves in gold, silver or bronze position as the Department of Work and Pensions gets into the spirit of the Olympics.

UK - Pensions minister Steve Webb has vowed to fulfil the government's promise to reinvigorate occupational pensions by deregulating the defined benefit sector.