Will pension triple-lock U-turn cost Boris Johnson?
TheWeek website questions whether reneging on the Manifesto triple lock promise will cost the Prime Minister politically and quotes Ros warning against dropping the earnings link.
Tory plan to increase pension age to 75 ‘chilling and immoral’
Ros was quoted in the Independent newspaper explaining why raising State Pension Age to 75 would be immoral.
Raising pension age to 75 would be damaging and unjust – Ros Altmann
Ros wrote a comment piece for the Yorkshire Post explaining why policymakers should ignore calls for sudden sharp increases in state pension age. ( link to pdf )
Tory’s plan to raise the state pension age to 75 over the next 16 years
Ros was quoted in the Daily Mirror commenting on the proposals from the CSJ to increase State Pension Age rapidly. ( link to pdf )
Will YOU be left flat broke by the flat rate pension fiasco? How a third are getting less than they expected…
Ros was quoted by the Daily Mail and MailOnLine explaining that many people will not get a full new State Pension, but did not understand how contracting out worked.
Government proposals to fix the NHS pension crisis still miss the mark
Government plans to reform NHS pensions don’t go far enough – Ros was quoted in the CityAM newspaper explaining why more is needed to sort the NHS pensions crisis. ( link to pdf )
Make firms pay more in tax if they hand their bosses’ huge pension gains, demands former minister
Reduce tax or NI relief if bosses pay themselves much bigger pensions than other staff – This is Money article. ( link to pdf )
WASPI: a guide to the women campaigning for pension equality
inews explains the background to the WASPI campaign and women’s state pension age problems. ( link to pdf )
Ros on Womans Hour discussing the day that women and men have the same state pension age, at 65
Listen to my interview from minute 14-to minute 24.
Britain’s pensions black hole stands at nearly £190bn as two in three schemes are in the red
Occupational Pension deficits are £190billion as pressure mounts on firms to increase funding for DB schemes ( link to pdf )