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More pension money for the self-employed but a warning to Pension Industry from Bell.

Torsten Bell’s promising bigger pensions for the self employed and the employed but with a stern warning for the pensions industry to improve its reputation for delivery. Continue reading →

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It’s good that Northern Ireland’s getting its voice heard by the Pension Commission

But Northern Ireland is, for pensions, following the same path as the rest of the UK and I’m glad, not just that Nick Pearce is visiting it, but that he’s writing about it too. Continue reading →

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Listening up or talking down; what do you want from the Pensions Commission?

Richard points what must matter to the Pension Commission. The voices of ordinary people, many of whom suffering from fear of the future, some of whom suffering from deprivation today. Making what we have coming in , pay the bills … Continue reading →

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SPP’s mammoth response to the Pension Commission (and Richard Smith’s condensation)

I have done what I can to digest the SPP’s response. It is 11,000 words long and I doubt many but me and Richard Smith outside the holy circle of the SPP and Pension UK policy makers will have read … Continue reading →

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Low earners can have a “comfortable life” if they get the pension they’re promised!

This article is from Maxine Kelly from the Financial Times it was, published on 3rd July as “breaking news”. The headline is  familiar to anyone who’s read the Pension Commission in May; but it’s “breaking” to most readers of the … Continue reading →

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The death of Sir John Hills; the “quiet man” of the Pension Commission

The death has been reported of Sir John Hills, this is a sad loss. John Hills was a professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Co-Director of the new International Inequalities Institute, and … Continue reading →

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