Budget proposes pension reforms
Press Release discussing the Chancellor’s Budget proposals to end contracting out and simplify the pension system.
Sunday Post – Reality Check for Pensions
Article published in Sunday Post discussing the need for people to understand the costs and risks of pensions and public sector workers to appreciate the value of their pensions.
Observer – Osborne ignores pensioners at his peril
Article published in the Daily Express criticizing the latest EEU ruling banning gender discrimination in insurance products and warning that this will make annuity prices worse for most people in the UK. It seems to be political correctness gone mad.
Half a million women let down by the Lords
Press Release highlighting the passionate debate but lamenting the narrow defeat of amendments in the House of Lords that would have alleviated the plight of 500,000 women facing increases in state pension age of more than one year.
FT video interview – EU ruling is bad news for UK pensions
Ros gave a video interview to FTfm’s Pauline Skypala reacting to the EU ruling on gender based pricing and other pension reform issues.
House of Lords Briefing on Women's State Pension Age proposals
Ros prepared a briefing for members of the House of Lords outlining the unfairnesses of the current proposals to increase women’s state pension age from 2016, in clear contravention of the Coalition Agreement and this does not give the women time to prepare.
Express comment: Pensions: How Baby Boomers Were Betrayed
Ros explains why we need radical state pension overhaul to provide a decent state pension at least £140 a week for all, to revitalise private pensions, end mass means testing and be fair to women at last.
Telegraph blog – Too late for women to make contingencies
Ros blog on Telegraph website explaining the unfairness of Government proposals to raise women’s state pension age and calling for a rethink.
Welcome to John McFall's pension inquiry – let's overhaul savings
Ros welcomes the new independent inquiry into Pension and Savings reform. Pensions need an image makeover.
Motley Fool Money Talk 'What's gone wrong with state pensions'
Ros was interviewed by Motley Fool’s excellent David Kuo on his Money Talk programme, discussing what has gone wrong with state pensions in the UK. Here is a transcript and you can click onto a podcast and listen to the interview from there.