Tuesday 22 May 2012

Poll

Should the government commit to a ten year moratorium on key pension rule changes?:

Politics

POLITICAL STAGE Targeting the rich

Labour is calling for tax relief for higher rate taxpayers to be capped reports Ceri Jones financial journalist

Labour leader Ed Miliband, in a speech at Eastpoint in Southampton in April where he was campaigning for control of the city council, called for pension relief for higher rate tax payers to be capped at 26%, with the extra revenue used to fund reverse cuts in tax credits set out in the Budget....
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PROFILE Rachel Reeves MP, Rising star

Ceri Jones profiles Rachel Reeves, Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions and champion of the fair treatment of women in raising the state pension age

Labour’s rising star Rachel Reeves has been catapulted into the pension arena at a timely moment for thousands of women. She became Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions in October, just as Chancellor George Osborne announced the Coalition’s proposals to speed up the timetable for the...
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POLITICAL STAGE Pensioners join forces

Ceri Jones, financial journalist, reports on another coalition – this time of pensioner groups – as lobbying forms around the switch from RPI to CPI

Opposition is building against the government’s plans to erode inflation protection in final salary pensions from next April as the implications of switching from using the Retail Prices Index (RPI) as the index for inflation protection to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) has become more...
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PENSION REFORM Election manifesto

With the right message and the right action, decent pensions are affordable urges Keith Barton, ACA

Last month, my organisation, the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) launched a six-point Retirement Income Manifesto, with a view to persuading the political parties ahead of the general election to “buy into” measures that will reinvigorate private sector retirement savings...
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