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    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      Moira O'Neill
      A comfortable retirement is being sacrificed for many

      Jeremy Hunt has put saver and investor plans in the deep freeze

    • Friday, 21 October, 2022
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      Lettuce pray for our personal finances

      Future for tax, pensions and energy policy has been tossed into the political salad spinner

    • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      A jubilee year for the state pension?

      Through the generations, women need to ensure they will have cause to celebrate in retirement

    • Friday, 7 January, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Sunak pressed to boost UK state pensions

      Calls for rethink on suspension of ‘triple lock’ as rising cost of living triggers concern among Tory MPs

    • Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
      Lords defeat government over change to UK state pension uplift

      Peers vote to keep ‘triple lock’ despite extra £5bn cost to Treasury, but move faces reversal in Commons

    • Monday, 21 June, 2021
      Downing St vows to stick with pension ‘triple lock’

      No 10 insists committed to pledge despite Treasury concerns on potential £4bn cost of uprating retirement payments

    • Friday, 10 July, 2020
      Buy-to-let
      Stamp duty holiday boosts buy-to-let landlords

      Property investors set to benefit from tax savings announced in the chancellor’s summer statement

    • Friday, 15 May, 2020
      Income tax
      Tax: how we will pay for the pandemic measures

      Previous manifesto promises could be broken and unpopular decisions made as the UK’s budget deficit mounts

    • Friday, 23 November, 2018
      UK state pension ‘should be means tested’

      International Monetary Fund calls for review of universal benefit

    • Thursday, 18 October, 2018
      Pensions
      Pensions lifetime allowance set to rise to £1.05m

      State pension payments likely to increase by 2.6 per cent

    • Thursday, 29 June, 2017
      State pension
      State pension triple lock to remain after Tory-DUP deal

      Plan to means test winter fuel payments also scrapped

    • Friday, 9 June, 2017
      Currencies
      What the election result means for your money

      How your investments and personal finances could be affected

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2017
      Q&AState pension
      UK election: what is the future for state pension triple lock?

      Conservatives fail to guarantee future for retirement income rises

    • Sunday, 30 April, 2017
      State pension
      Theresa May hints at scrapping tax and pensions locks

      PM signals she will change Cameron’s flagship policy if she wins election

    • Saturday, 29 April, 2017
      John McTernan
      How to think differently about the grey vote

      Older people are missing from the election debate where they matter most

    • Saturday, 29 April, 2017
      State pension
      Triple lock traps Theresa May between pensions and polls

      The PM’s choice — retiree anger or tackling cost and imbalance

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2017
      UK public finances
      Theresa May urged to break promise not to raise taxes

      Former Treasury head says revenue and pension locks will mean permanent deficit

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2017
      State pension
      UK should scrap state pension for the rich, says OECD

      Taking benefits from top 5-10% would free cash for poor, senior director argues

    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2017
      UK politics opinion polls
      Theresa May refuses to commit to pensions ‘triple lock’

      Policy ensures state pension rises by highest of CPI, earnings growth or 2.5%

    • Sunday, 23 April, 2017
      The FT ViewState pension
      Theresa May should drop the state pension ‘triple lock’

      The UK prime minister has the electoral freedom to tackle policy injustices

    • Friday, 21 April, 2017
      Q&ATax
      Election 2017 and what it means for your money

      The key battlegrounds on investments, tax, pensions and property

    • Thursday, 23 March, 2017
      State pension
      Pensions review recommends later retirement age

      Report suggests rise from 67 to 68 by 2039, seven years earlier than planned

    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2017
      State pension
      MPs warn over ‘triple lock’ pensions cost

      ‘Continuing promise will lead to a rise in state pension age’

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2017
      State pension
      UK borrowing forecast to rise after next election

      Rising costs for healthcare and pensions expected to outpace tax revenue growth

    • Thursday, 1 December, 2016
      State pension
      Labour vows to protect pensioner benefits until 2025

      Move follows Conservative party hint that ‘triple lock’ is to be abandoned

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