Tag Archives: Sir Steve Webb

Do you really want to give us the nastiest hardest problem in finance – Steve?

Posted on May 21, 2026 by henry tapper

I suspect that former pensions minister Steve Webb is annoyed by chapter 5 of the Pension Commission’s report this week. This is his comment on LinkedIn   Here are excerpts from Steve Webb’s Times article published this morning. I know … Continue reading →

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Pension freedoms don’t work for the dead, pensions are for the living!

Posted on August 11, 2025 by henry tapper

I come at the issue rather differently than Ros who is keen on protecting retirement wealth as a haven for those with inheritance tax problems. Well I don’t think this is top of the list of Government priorities despite there … Continue reading →

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Steve Webb’s Ludgate Lecture on the state pension.

Posted on April 28, 2024 by henry tapper

In this lecture, Steve Webb gives us what he calls  a two course meal The first course looks at  how it  is  that Government is getting its administation so wrong on the payment of the State Pension Steve’s charitable answer … Continue reading →

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Steve Webb on how AI will improve Government decision making

Posted on August 13, 2023 by henry tapper

Beyond Curious with LCP · S1 Ep. 7 AI in government, politics and regulation “Government is “teeming” with data and harnessing the power of AI to analyse that data should be a no-brainer”. That’s the view of Steve Webb- and … Continue reading →

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Financial education? It needs more conviction than most of us can muster!

Posted on April 30, 2022 by henry tapper

People in the pensions industry are fond of using the phrase “financial education” as if they know the answer and those who aren’t doing what they want to do are financially illiterate.  This is hugely arrogant and largely wrong. People … Continue reading →

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‘Normal service will be resumed by the end of October 2021″ -DWP

Posted on September 20, 2021 by henry tapper

I hope Guy Opperman’s promise that those due their state pension , some for 6 months or more, will get their payments with more than an apology. The short term blip in service is being blamed by the Minister on … Continue reading →

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Webb and Snowden on the state pension and scamming

Posted on July 28, 2021 by henry tapper

We are hosting our first “Event” on Tues 3 August. You are invited to join our “All Stars” pension experts Steve Webb and Margaret Snowdon, for a coffee morning discussing state pensions and pension scams. Sign up to for free … Continue reading →

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Underpayments of the State Pension estimated at £2.7bn.

Posted on March 6, 2021 by henry tapper

In May last year, former Minister Steve Webb, now a partner with actuarial practice, Lane Clark and Peacock, launched a calculator to help the nation’s Grannies work out if they were entitled to more state pension than they had received.. … Continue reading →

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It’s employers that did it! Rudd should be thanking them for “her” policy success

Posted on February 12, 2019 by henry tapper

      I’m pleased to see that attempts to re-write history by the Conservative party have been foiled by the ever-vigilant Cumbo. These were not @conservative party reforms. Automatic enrolment resulted from a cross-party consensus and was introduced by … Continue reading →

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