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Pensions

  • Research Briefing

    Occupational pension increases

    Friday, 11 December, 2020

    Looks at the requirements on private sector Defined Benefit occupational pension schemes to index and revalue pension benefits and recent debates

    • Research Briefing
    • Pensions
  • Research Briefing

    Pension scheme investments – climate change risk

    Wednesday, 09 December, 2020

    This short briefing paper aims to provide context for provisions in clause 124 of the Pension Schemes Bill 2019/21 that would “require occupational pension schemes to manage the effects of climate change effectively as a financial risk to their investments and to report publicly on how they have done so.”

    • Research Briefing
    • Climate change
    • Pensions
  • Debate Pack

    Future of pensions policy

    Friday, 04 December, 2020

    A Westminster Hall debate on ‘The Future of pensions policy’ has been scheduled for Tuesday 8 December 2020 from 2.30pm to 4.00pm. The debate will be led by Rob Roberts MP

    • Debate Pack
    • Pensions
    • Social security
  • Research Briefing

    Pensions dashboards

    Wednesday, 02 December, 2020

    This Commons Library Briefing paper looks at the debate on the pensions dashboard, which is being developed to enable people to view all their lifetime pension savings (including their state pension) in one place

    • Research Briefing
    • Pensions
  • Research Briefing

    Pension sharing on divorce

    Friday, 27 November, 2020

    This note looks at the introduction of pension sharing on divorce provisions and points to some sources of information and guidance

    • Research Briefing
    • Family law
    • Pensions
  • Research Briefing

    Support for UK Veterans

    Thursday, 05 November, 2020

    This briefing paper details the support available to armed forces veterans in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

    • Research Briefing
    • Armed forces
    • Defence
    • Health
    • Health services
    • Housing and planning
    • Pensions
    • Rented housing
  • Insight

    Contributory benefits and social insurance in the UK

    Thursday, 29 October, 2020

    Spending on contributory benefits accounts for around 9% of social security expenditure on working-age adults and children.

    • Insight
    • Benefits
    • Pensions
    • Work and incomes
  • Research Briefing

    Pension Protection Fund

    Wednesday, 28 October, 2020

    This Commons Library briefing paper looks at the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) which was one of the measures set up by the Pensions Act 2004. It was in response to a series of high-profile cases in which pension schemes had wound up with insufficient assets to meet their pension commitments. The PPF started operations on 6 April 2005 and applies to schemes that started winding up after that date.

    • Research Briefing
    • Pensions
  • Research Briefing

    Social Security (Uprating of Benefits) Bill 2019-21

    Friday, 25 September, 2020

    Briefing on the Social Security (Uprating of Benefits) Bill 2019-21, which would enable uprating of the State Pension and the Pension Credit Guarantee in the event of earnings falling year-on-year in the three months to July 2020

    • Research Briefing
    • Pensions
  • Research Briefing

    Increases in the State Pension age for women born in the 1950s

    Friday, 18 September, 2020

    Briefing on the legislation increasing the State Pension age for women born in the 1950s, and the campaigns against it

    • Research Briefing
    • Pensions
    • Local data
    • Social security
    • Work and incomes data
  • Research Briefing

    Railways pension scheme (RPS)

    Friday, 18 September, 2020

    This note looks at the development of the Railways Pension Scheme set up in 1994 following the privatisation of British Rail

    • Research Briefing
    • Pensions
    • Rail
  • Research Briefing

    Pension Credit – current issues

    Tuesday, 25 August, 2020

    Looks at some of the issues currently raised in connection with Pension Credit

    • Research Briefing
    • Pensions
  • Research Briefing

    Public service pensions – the 2015 reforms

    Monday, 17 August, 2020

    This notes looks at the reforms to public service pensions introduced in 2015 under the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 and the implications of the Court of Appeal's decision that the transitional arrangements were discriminatory on grounds of age

    • Research Briefing
    • Pensions
  • Research Briefing

    Armed Forces Pension Scheme and preserved pensions

    Thursday, 13 August, 2020

    Armed Forces Pension Scheme and preserved pensions

    • Research Briefing
    • Armed forces
    • Defence
    • Pensions
  • Research Briefing

    The Pensions Regulator: Powers to protect pension benefits

    Thursday, 09 July, 2020

    Looks at the Pensions Regulator's powers to protect pension scheme benefits and measures to strengthen them in the Pension Schemes Bill (HL} 2019/21

    • Research Briefing
    • Business
    • Pensions

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