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Pension reform: who is proposing what?: PPI briefing note number 16
- Author:
- PENSIONS POLICY INSTITUTE
- Publisher:
- Pensions Policy Institute
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Pension reform looks inevitable in the UK. When the Government produced a Green Paper in 2002, despite their intended focus on private pensions, most major organisations said reform of the state pension system was needed. Now the Pensions Commission has confirmed the diagnosis of worsening pension provision, most organisations will be reviewing their pension policy proposals to make submissions
The pensions landscape
- Author:
- PENSIONS POLICY INSTITUTE
- Publisher:
- Pensions Policy Institute
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 72p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Today's pensions landscape looks better than yesterday's on average. But pensioner poverty remains, and there are no signs that tomorrow's landscape will look any brighter. To avoid the risk that tomorrow's pensioners are worse off than today's, reform of state pension policy has to be debated. Pensioners' incomes have risen, but so has the gap between the richest and the poorest. Private pension income makes the difference between rich and poor pensioners. A quarter of pensioners are in relative poverty. Typically, older pensioners are poorer, as are women, people from ethnic minorities and those who have been self-employed. To avoid the risk that tomorrow's pensioners are worse off than today's, reform of state pensions policy should be debated now.