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Work And Pensions Select Committee Demands Providers Offer Default Drawdown Policies Pensions Bill Amendments Too Weak Says Former Pensions Minister Pension Cold Calling Ban Could Be In Place For Summer FCA Steps Up Scrutiny Of Pension Transfers But Will Bring In A Blanket Ban Frank Field Calls For Auto Enrolment Review To Be “Bold” MPs Call For Pensions Cold Calling Ban To Be Fast-Tracked Baroness Ros Altmann Gives Evidence About Cold Calling Ban To Work And Pensions Committee Pension Freedoms To Be Probed By MPs High Inflation Is Bad News For Defined Benefit Schemes Frank Field Questions Use Of RPI In Valuing DB Pension Scheme Liabilities Will There Be A Self Employed Pensions Revolution? Will the Government Cut the State Pension?

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This week, the ABI, the Association of British Insurers has reported that following a two-year industry initiative to make the language used about pensions simpler, clearer and more consistent, thousands of changes have been made to consumer materials. Read more.

Pensions Language Made Simpler

Read More 16 Apr 2018
The Pensions Regulator has started carrying out spot check of employers across the North East of England to identify those that are not complying with their pension duties.

The Pensions Regulator Starts Spot Checks on North East Empl…

Read More 13 Apr 2018
With more and more people now saving for retirement thanks to auto enrolment, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed (IPSE) have highlighted the fact that many self employed people (who are not covered by auto enrolment at the moment) are not preparing for their retirement on the same scale as those who are. Read more.

Self Employed Still Not Preparing For Retirement

Read More 10 Apr 2018
The former pensions minister and now House of Lords member Baroness Ros Altmann has called for reforms to be made in pensions. The calls come as pensions freedoms reach their third birthday. Writing for New Model Adviser, Baroness Altmann calls for six major reforms: Read more.

Former Pensions Minister Baroness Ros Altmann Calls For Pens…

Read More 9 Apr 2018
In its annual funding statement (AFS), The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has said that trustees and sponsoring employers of defined benefit pension schemes must do more to protect member benefits. Strong employers should consider contributing more money to reduce scheme deficits over a shorter period of time, especially where they are paying out high dividends it says. Read more.

TPR Stresses Importance Of Protecting Member Benefits

Read More 9 Apr 2018
Parliament’s Work and Pensions Select Committee have demanded that providers be forced to offer default drawdown policies to savers by April 2019. This call forms part of the committee’s final report in its enquiry into pension freedoms that were introduced in 2015 by the then chancellor George Osborne.

Work And Pensions Select Committee Demands Providers Offer D…

Read More 6 Apr 2018
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