Steve Webb

Pensions minister Steve Webb has confirmed that a single flat-rate pension is one of a range of options that will be explored in a green paper to be published shortly.

There is "no overriding reason" why a merger of National Insurance and income tax should not go ahead, a consultant says.

Occupational scheme member groups have attacked the switch to Consumer Prices Index inflation as a Treasury cost-saving exercise aimed at benefitting business over members.

The House of Commons has approved an order to move from RPI to CPI index linking for public sector, state additional and occupational pensions.

MPs have accused pensions minister Steve Webb of backtracking on the coalition agreement's terms on increasing the women's state pension age.

Government has compounded the misery for final salary schemes by reducing the contracted-out rebate level, industry figures say.

The government has officially launched a call for evidence to review the regulatory differences between trust-based and contract-based defined contribution schemes.

The Pensions Regulator has published a discussion paper on how it should support the defined contribution (DC) market in the delivery of good outcomes for savers.

UK - The Department for Work and Pensions is to take action to stop firms using differences between defined contribution regulations to cut scheme costs when faced with auto-enrolment.

Jonathan Stapleton on a DC regulation loophole which needs to be closed