Steve Webb

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".

The Labour opposition should have come up with a solution to help women disproportionately hit by the rise in the state pension age to 66 by 2020, pensions minister Steve Webb says.

Unions have rejected proposals put forward by pensions minister Steve Webb to reform the basic state pension, saying its cost neutrality "condemns it to failure".

Public services risk losing £3.4bn a year from budgets if contracting-out is removed as part of a switch to a single-tier state pension, a report reveals.

The government has hinted it will change rules around short service refunds after warning companies not to assume such refunds will continue in their current form.

The government has reiterated it will not introduce legislation to override pension scheme indexation rules.

The government's decision to revalue pensions by Consumer Prices Index inflation has led to a "scheme rules lottery" for private sector schemes, a lawyer warns.

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