Pensions
The TUC believes that everyone should be able to retire in dignity with a decent pension. We campaign for better pensions for today's pensioners and work to ensure that people still at work can look forward to decent pensions. Here is where you can find our detailed briefings and reports on pensions policy. To find out more information about your pension rights, go to Know Your Rights.
This subjects also provides information for [Member Trustee Network] and how to [join].
The TUC provides its own stakeholder pension scheme, providing working people and their families with a first class way to save for retirement. To find out more go to [TUC Stakeholder Pension Scheme].
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The most recent documents available on this subject are:
Personal Accounts consultation right to focus on needs of low to medium earners
Responding to the new consultation by the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA) on personal accounts, launched today (Wednesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
25 November 2009
TUC welcomes Pensions Regulator's campaign on good pension scheme governance
Commenting on the launch of The Pensions Regulator's campaign to encourage good governance and administration of pension schemes, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
24 November 2009
Private sector employers have walked away from providing good pensions, says TUC
Responding to figures published today (Wednesday) from the Office for National Statistics, which show that nine million people paid into an occupational pension in 2008, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
28 October 2009
TUC welcomes Personal Account scheme rules
The TUC has welcomed the Government's publication of the results of the consultation on the draft scheme order and rules for Personal Accounts – the new low-cost pensions.
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: “This is another milestone on the road to the new pensions settlement. It's good news for both employers and employees.
26 October 2009
Raising state pension age to 70 would put older people in workless limbo, says TUC
Responding to the Institute of Directors' (IOD) report on retirement published today (Monday), which calls for the state pension age to be raised to 70, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
19 October 2009
Scrapping personal accounts would leave millions unpensioned, says TUC
Responding to comments from Dr. Ros Altmann today (Monday) that the Government should scrap its proposed personal accounts scheme, designed to boost the provision of workplace pensions, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
28 September 2009
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