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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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