Pensions
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Whether you are a small business owner, a driver or a homebuyer, here’s how the chancellor’s plans will affect you
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New firm to serve one in four UK households but some investors question rationale as reports suggest thousands of job losses
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Millions of people live in homes that are not linked to the gas grid. So how can householders avoid paying through the nose for their fuel?
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An annuity is your saved pot of pension money, built up over your working life, and traded for an income when you retire
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Bid prompted by chancellor’s pension reforms could be biggest insurance tie-up since Norwich Union-CGU merger in 2000
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Fears of ‘rip-off charges being taken from the savings of hardworking people’ when new pension rules come in next year
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Most taking up jobs are trapped on less than living wage, finds report by Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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Jane Dudman: MyCSP pension fiasco shows Frances Maude’s mutualisation plans are no magic wand – as civil service pensioners have found to their cost
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Labour increases pressure on Tories over government cuts after prime minister’s warning as Japan enters recession
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Advisers to Financial Conduct Authority say small investors are losing out as a result of poor governance and failing competition
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Anne Puckridge: Brits like me who fought in the war and moved overseas are on the breadline – because of a pensions policy that shames the UK
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Observer editorial: With imagination, we can all benefit from the baby boomers’ talents
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MyCSP flagship scheme is “shambles” say pensioners hit by IT delays and poor communication
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David Cameron orders change which could affect 3,000 military widows, at a cost of £120m over the next 40 years
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Crown dependency’s treasury says bold transformation of system needed to ensure national insurance fund stays solvent
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Automatic enrolment could create pension pots of around £480bn; for businesses it’s a huge chance to ‘green’ global capital
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Michele Hanson: Non-scroungers are funding the DWP to the tune of £10bn in unclaimed benefits – but woe betide those who try to claim benefits when they need to
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Universities UK has suggested dramatic reforms to academic pensions. Who would be most affected by the proposals? And when will the marking boycott take place?
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As the bank seeks to shrink by another 9,000 jobs, the case is clearer than ever for action to improve the UK’s skills levels
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Some plan to use George Osborne’s pension reform for DIY and holidays as fears grow rules will lead to new mis-selling scandal
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Many ethnic minorities have taken lower paid jobs. Now they are being hampered from retiring abroad, writes Floella Benjamin
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The increase in the basic state pension by double the rate of inflation is cold comfort to many British pensioners living abroad
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Next October’s measure comes as ministers fear that those obtaining refunds will be left with nothing for retirement
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Former Bond star spearheading campaign to win bigger payments after losing half her pension due to insurer’s collapse
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Do you take a tax-free lump sum, buy that Lamborghini, or spend it all on your children right now? Today’s over-55s have a maze of possibilities for their pension pot
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CPI inflation relies on average buying patterns but poorest 50% spend more on essentials, says New Economics Foundation
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National Pensioners Convention warns 2.5% increase not enough for cost of living, adding pension left to wither on the vine
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Chancellor George Osborne welcomes a 'double dose of good economic news' on inflation and pensions
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From April 2015, savers over 55 will be given the option of taking a number of smaller lump sums. This is why it will benefit you
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Chancellor claims pensions tax bill allows people to be ‘free to choose what they do with their money’
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Calls for pension savers to be allowed to question retirement fund managers and to elect trustees to occupational schemes
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One in eight employees aged 50 or over has been the target of fraudsters promising to release their pension savings
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Two years after millions of workers started being auto-enrolled into a pension, we look at how their funds are faring
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In Singapore, the compulsory pension fund is used to help build local housing. So why is Nest, the UK fund, investing just 8.5% of its pot in the UK?
How the government's flagship mutual let down former civil servants