{"id":2112,"date":"2015-08-03T13:44:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T12:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2015-08-03T13:44:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T12:44:31","slug":"a-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/a-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A pensions policy that is bad for pensioners?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Last year\u2019s Freedom and Choice reforms tore up the consensus that pensions policy needs to smooth income over retirement. However, research suggests that individuals still value pension predictability.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">To read more, click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicfinance.co.uk\/opinion\/2015\/08\/pensions-policy-bad-pensioners\">here<\/a><\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Publisher:\u00a0Public Finance<\/p>\n<p>Author: James Lloyd, Strategic Society Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year\u2019s Freedom and Choice reforms tore up the consensus that pensions policy needs to smooth income over retirement. However, research suggests that individuals still value pension predictability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true],"et-pb-post-main-image":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-400x250.jpg",400,250,true],"et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-1080x675.jpg",1080,675,true],"et-pb-portfolio-image":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-400x284.jpg",400,284,true],"et-pb-portfolio-module-image":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-510x382.jpg",510,382,true],"et-pb-portfolio-image-single":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-1080x720.jpg",1080,720,true],"et-pb-gallery-module-image-portrait":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-400x516.jpg",400,516,true],"et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth-large":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-2880x1800.jpg",2880,1800,true],"et-pb-image--responsive--desktop":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-1280x854.jpg",1079,720,true],"et-pb-image--responsive--tablet":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-980x653.jpg",827,551,true],"et-pb-image--responsive--phone":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-pensions-policy-that-is-bad-for-pensioners-480x320.jpg",405,270,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Trevor Sather","author_link":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/author\/trevor-2\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Last year\u2019s Freedom and Choice reforms tore up the consensus that pensions policy needs to smooth income over retirement. 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