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Tax credits may harm pensioners in the long run
Published:  16 August, 2010

First, the good news. The pension lobby has been successful both in mobilising and strengthening voter concerns about how pensioners fare in our society. Pensioners themselves have, as part of this success, not been inactive. Any set of general election turnout figures will show pensioners are more likely to vote than any other group. Voters five years off state retirement age, and those already claiming, made up a clear majority of voters at the last two elections.

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Simon Baynes Independent trustee

No quick fix for chronic pensions illness
Published:  09 August, 2010

The chronic pensions problem will not be turned around with belt-tightening and austerity. We will need to continue taking the medicine well after the financial deficit has been fixed.

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Charles Amos Chief executive, Pension Scheme Secretariat Services

Who pays for UK pensions? You may be surprised
Published:  02 August, 2010

Any wholesale reduction to pastservice indexation would favour hard-to-tax foreign shareholders at the expense of easily taxed middle-income pensioners.

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Rachel Brougham UK head of pensions governance, Mercer

Is there a Doctor in the house?
Published:  26 July, 2010

How often have any of us wondered about time travel? If we were offered a trip in the Tardis to view the future state of governance of the UK pensions landscape in the not too distant future, what might we find?

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