Steve Webb

UK - Pensions minister Steve Webb has signalled that the government will revisit the issue of risk-sharing as part of its drive to reinvigorate occupational pensions.

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Pensions minister Steve Webb has signalled that the government will revisit the issue of risk-sharing as part of its drive to reinvigorate occupational pensions.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has vowed short service refunds will not be part of the future pensions landscape, and warned employers not to factor them in when selecting a scheme.

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Andrew Short considers the technological challenges facing companies preparing for the introduction of auto-enrolment.

More than three-quarters of respondents to a consultation on a £140 a week single-tier state pension back the proposal, the government says.

A maritime union has called on the government to broaden auto-enrolment legislation to include seafarers and offshore workers who are excluded from the law because they are not "ordinarily resident" in the UK.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has promised that the goverment will create a transitional arrangement for women hit hardest by the rise in the state pension age.

The Department for Work and Pensions has published a guide to pensions terminology in an attempt to strip away "unintelligible language and confusing jargon".