Pensions auto-enrolment freeze risks leaving shortfall for retirees
Ros is quote by inews calling for the auto-enrolment earnings trigger to be removed, rather than being frozen. ( link to pdf )
Ros Altmann: The disaster of removing IHT exemptions for unused pension funds
Ros wrote a Column in Money Marketing highlighting why removal of IHT exemption for unused pension funds is so disastrous for the long-term future of pensions. ( link to pdf )
The hidden pensions danger wiping millions from retirement pots
Ros is quoted in a Daily Telegraph article expressing concerns that pension fund default options did not move away from lifestyling even after the pension freedoms meant moving to supposedly low risk assets was not necessarily suitable.
Inheritance tax raid is disaster for pensions: Attack ‘horribly reminiscent’ of Gordon Brown plundering dividends in 1997
Ros is quoted by ThisIsMoney likening the IHT raid on DC schemes to the 1997 ACT tax rate on DB pensions and warning of huge damage to future pensions. ( link to pdf )
Reeves’ inheritance tax raid puts millions at risk of poverty in later life, warns ROS ALTMANN
Ros wrote a comment article for ThisIsMoney and the Daily Mail, explaining the dangers of later life poverty as a result of the decision to impose inheritance tax on unused DC pension pots. ( link to pdf )
Hands off our pensions! Reeves told amid panic over a budget tax raid on retirement pots
Ros is quoted in ThisIsMoney urging the Government to stop tinkering all the time with pensions and try to let the system settle down so people can make proper plans. ( link to pdf )
No pensioner should ever vote Labour again
Ros wrote a comment article for the Daily Telegraph explaining the various ways in which the new Government has disadvantaged pensioners and calling for their value to be recognised.
Pension warning issued as millions to be hit by ‘marathon mortgages’
Ros is quoted in the Daily Express saying she is not so concerned about mortgages that last beyond pension age, especially for those with good pension income. ( link to pdf )
Millions of people born before this year to get DWP letter with £5,000 boost
Ros is quoted in the Daily Mirror talking about DWP and HMRC writing to hundreds of thousands of women who may not have been given full Home Responsibilities Protection and could get higher state pensions. ( link to pdf )
Spread the message there is no shame in claiming pension credit, says new campaign
ThisIsMoney explains how to claim Pension Credit and mentions Ros’ opposition to the means-testing of Winter Fuel Payments. ( link to pdf )