People aged 40-75 who are yet to fully retire expect they will need an income of £30,525 a year when they stop working, which means individuals need to fill...
Read moreDetailsAlmost all defined contribution (DC) pension savers, 97 per cent, support investing their retirement savings into affordable housing, seeing it as a critical social issue, according to research from...
Read moreDetailsFour in five UK employees received smaller pay rises in 2025 than 2024, as data shows that pay increases remained at 3 percent for the seventh consecutive rolling quarter....
Read moreDetailsThe UK has a pensions adequacy problem. Many people are not saving enough into their workplace pensions for a comfortable retirement, and a significant proportion won’t have enough to...
Read moreDetailsThe government’s revived Pensions Commission, led by Baroness Drake, is set to re-examine auto-enrolment and the state pension age (SPA). One of the commission’s aims is to build cross-party...
Read moreDetailsPay gap reporting isn’t just about numbers, it’s about accountability, trust, and driving real change, says Liisa Antola, manager of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and customer outcomes at...
Read moreDetailsTesco’s efforts to appeal against a major equal pay case with around 55,000 claimants have been delayed by an "elephant behind a screen", according to judges at the hearing....
Read moreDetailsThe government has reinstated the Pensions Commission to address concerns that many people retiring in the future will be worse off than pensioners today, with almost half of working...
Read moreDetailsThe government’s Pensions Review, which will look at ways to expand workplace pensions auto-enrolment, could be launched before parliament’s summer recess next week (22 July 2025). The review centres...
Read moreDetailsThe UK gender pay gap has fallen to its lowest level since 2017 as progress towards equal pay grows, according to figures from PWC. The average (mean) hourly gap...
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