Ros comments on latest figures from DWP showing a staggering £200 a week difference between state pension payments across the country – and explaining that the current system is unfair, especially as most of the with low pensions are women and with high pensions are men.
Ros comments on a report from MetLife showing the big differences in pensions between males and females.
Ros explains the damage being done to UK final salary pension schemes as deficits mount and gilt prices rise, forcing schemes to face a ‘death spiral’.
Ros comments on a report from the CIPD and calls for incentives for employers to provide workplace advice on financial planning.
Ros comments on the latest DWP report suggesting that those auto-enrolled into pensions will have much better retirement incomes.
Ros comments on the announcement that Government proposals for reforming state pensions and increasing state pension age are being delayed from Spring 2012 to the Autumn. We do need to get the detail right, but reform is essential.
Press Release welcoming calls from influential Tory MPs for the Government to introduce care ISAs and perhaps family care saving plans to help people prepare for care – Social Care reform will still require a care savings culture and so far there are no incentives to save for care – and indeed most people don’t realize they even need to.
Ros wrote an article for the Sunday Telegraph, explaining why we must not think too short-term about social care reform – if we don’t fund it now, it will cost more later. People need to save for later life care needs.
An article published in the Sunday People newspaper, where Ros explains that women’s pensions are far lower than men’s and those women approaching retirement now have very poor pension prospects.
Article from House Magazine previewing the forthcoming White Paper on state pension reform.