Steve Webb

Jonathan Stapleton says increasing member engagement is the only way to reinvigorate pensions

UK - The Government published its Pensions Bill today, covering proposed changes to auto-enrolment.

The government published its Pensions Bill today, covering proposed changes to auto-enrolment.

Changes to the introduction of auto-enrolment will be deregulatory and reduce the burden on employers, pensions minister Steve Webb told MPs.

Labour has slammed the coalition government for dithering over plans to introduce a flat rate state pension after it shelved the launch of a consultation last year.

The Bank of England must increase interest rates this week to protect pensioners from the effects of high inflation, Ros Altmann says.

Pensions minister Steve Webb will face a barrage of questions on pension changes next week as MPs return to parliament.

People with several small occupational pensions should be able to group them together for trivial commutation, Hargreaves Lansdown head of pensions research Tom McPhail says.

In the first part of our run-down of the top 20 most read Professional Pensions Online news articles in 2010, we look at those in eleventh to twentieth place.

More than 2 million people who are already over the age of 50 will reach their 100th birthday, latest Department for Work and Pensions analysis reveals.