Pensions in The News

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• 2million pensioners live in poverty, says ONS

• State pension should offer dignity to older people

• State pension freeze saves up to £350m

• Crackdown on political jargon urged by MPs

• Shrinking pension pots force older people to work longer

• Record number of older workers forced to shelve retirement plans due to financial crisis

• Pensioners to lose payment choice

• State pension faces population explosion

• Bosses call for later pension age

• Millions of pensioners pay too much tax due to over-complicated system

• Government urged to act on pensioner tax overpayments

• Financial News - Tax News - UK pensioners missing out on tax breaks

• Devon24 - Pension increase 'not enough'

• Pension choice 'poorly explained'

• State pensions to rise by 2.5%

• Pensioners to be £8 a week richer

• 2 November Pension Credit Boost spells good news for retired population

• Warning as pensions gap rises to £15bn

• Jenny Willott MP lives on State Pension for a week to highlight how the UK is heading for a Pensions 'Dark Age'

• UK state pension provision could lead to a 'dark age'

• Scrapping Retirement Age will force people to work til they drop

• Plan to increase State Pension is unaffordable

• Pensioners to miss out on half a billion in allowances