All news on the topic: Pensions

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has defended the decision to reject compensation for women hit by changes to the state pension age, arguing that the taxpayer "simply can’t afford the tens of billions of pounds" in payments.

Low pension savings and growing economic threats from climate change mean most people face miserable retirements unless the government steps up its ambition.

The DWP is contacting everyone who is being moved over to Universal Credit in stages - and when it is your turn, you’ll receive a letter in the post known as a ’migration notice’

The warning has come as hundreds of thousands of pensioners across the country could be at risk of receiving a bill from the government tax department next year

Charity Independent Age has warned a shake-up of winter fuel payments could be dangerous as new data suggests hundreds of thousands who are entitled to it could miss out

Former pensions minister Sir Steve Webb has been contacted by four people who had not been awarded any inherited state pension when they retired when they should have been

New category of widows and widowers on receiving end of DWP errors, says former minister

There is a push to consolidate the UK local government pension scheme into a larger fund to drive investment

Government must defuse ‘ticking timebomb’ of people not saving enough for retirement, says Royal London CEO

Expert says missing credits on financial products don’t just vanish - they wait an eternity to be claimed

Labour has promised to "kickstart economic growth" after 14 years of Conservative Government and wants to address the rise in economic inactivity. But what does it mean for the benefits system?

Unite union says workers are being ‘fleeced’ by supermarket’s changes to pension contribution rules

The state pension increased by 8.5% this month, in line with September 2023’s wage growth figures, but the latest hike could lead 400,000 people into income tax brackets

Angela Madden, who chairs the WASPI campaign which seeks justice over the pension age scandal, says Labour and the Conservatives must commit to a compensation plan fast

Pensioner Sandra fears for her life as she struggles to stay warm in her uninsulated home which is overrun with damp and mould. Here, she shares her terrifying situation with The Mirror

Rishi Sunak was challenged to explain how he'd find an estimated £46billion a year to scrap National Insurance Contributions (NICs), but didn't rule out NHS and pension cuts

Mirror agony aunt Coleen Nolan advises a reader who gets by on a small pension and relies on handouts from her secretive husband

The International Consortium of British Pensioners (ICBP) has published a new report which shares the warning for pensioners looking to move abroad and slams the Government’s defence of it's “immoral” policy

If you’re able to use the money saved from the National Insurance cut into your workplace pension, you could substantially increase your retirement savings by thousands of pounds

Normally, you start to receive your Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) state pension when you reach state pension age which at the moment is 66 years old and currently, there are around 12.6million people claiming it in the UK