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Winter fuel: pay-back time?
Iain Duncan Smith wants wealthier pensioners to pay back their winter fuel allowances.
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Care costs: Christmas come early?
Blink and you missed it. The Chancellor of the Exchequer went on live TV yesterday to announce U-turns for two of the most significant government announcements this year
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Pension Reform: Not so simple
Like a particularly strange, obscure breed of nerds, those with an interest in pension policy found themselves glued to BBC Parliament on Monday as pensions minister Steve Webb finally stood up to announce the government’s White Paper on a single-tier state pension.
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Older People’s Spending: What’s in a label?
With the population ageing, we often hear grandiose statements about the need to reshape the welfare state or transform health and social care. But, how society performs at adapting to population ageing will really come down to the behaviour of individual older people and the daily choices they make about […]
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Misgivings on pensions
In the early days of the financial crisis, the pension industry looked to be in a rather good position. Whereas half of the UK high street banking sector fell over, the key names in pensions stood strong, reflecting both better regulation but also undoubted cultural differences.