Pensions

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Ministers must decide whether to risk alienating older voters by ending guaranteed pension rises

Ministers urging PM to consult them on key decisions as ‘difficult autumn nears’

Conservative MPs claim planned hikes will ‘strangle’ economy as debt rockets

Boris Johnson risks angering traditional Tories as he appeals to former Labour voters in the North and Midlands

Retirees facing huge repayment bills following discovery of calculations blunders dating back decades

Government considering tax breaks for high earners in bid to tackle NHS staffing crisis

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Changing retirement age would create £182bn windfall says influential centre-right think tank

Amid labour market boom, experts say older workers will be vital to addressing the looming workforce shortages

People earning the average wage of £27,500 estimated to take home a pension far less than current national living wage

Two-thirds have no retirement savings, compared to less than a third of employed workers

Shareholders and MPs express anger at huge pension perks and accounting trickery to mask size of payouts

Predicted age of death drops by six months as experts warn that decline in longevity is ‘trend as opposed to a blip’

Ten million UK workers are about to see a drop in their take-home earnings

Millennials better than Generation X at putting money aside for retirement, although baby boomers beat the lot

Outbreak of avian malaria means models will likely stay at Telford zoo well into 2019

Regulators warn that pension fraud victims lost more than £23m last year

One in three retirees expected to still be renting so will need a bigger pension pot

More than 19 million people in UK living on incomes below required level

Thousands take to streets after retirement age hike - but protests banned from World Cup host cities

10m people don’t know if their other half’s money is banked or invested

Tophshop and Miss Selfridge tycoon ‘sad’ he is not credited for pensions

Flightless birds inspect filming equipment left near their colony

Scientists had previously feared that the Adélie penguins' numbers had been in decline because of climate change

Work and Pensions Committee querying deferred pension contributions in separate probe

PM vows action after Carillion collapse leaves £900m pension deficit

Every adult British worker will begin saving into a workplace pension unless they opt out

UBS says British retirees are more dependent on private pension provision

IFS says 60 to 62-year-olds have lost an average of £32 a week - while government gains £5.1bn a year

No one qualified with the pension was first introduced. Now too many people do

Some people do not have the 35 years' of NI contributions needed - even if they have been in constant work

Property, private pensions and state's 'triple-lock' policy push older people's incomes above their children's