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		<title>Minister may raise pension age to 70</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Britain is being pushed back to &#8216;the days of Dickens&#8217; by plans to force workers to retire as late as 70, it was claimed last night. 
Ministers warned that millions of workers face the prospect of a retirement date which slips farther from their grasp every year. 
In a major shake-up of state pensions, the Government said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jigsaw-cfm.co.uk/minister-may-raise-pension-age-to-70/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time to take politics out of pensions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We can no longer trust politicians to take care of our pensions, say experts. Instead, they should hand control to an independent body&#8230;

 
After years of political meddling, Britain&#8217;s once-proud pensions system lays in ruins.
Criticised for being over-complicated and unrewarding, pensions have been rejected by millions of Britons, despite huge swathes of us facing terrifying gaps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jigsaw-cfm.co.uk/its-time-to-take-politics-out-of-pensions/</link>
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		<title>Pension age: Ministers to speed up rise to 66</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The government is to speed up plans to raise the state pension age for men to 66, possibly by as early as 2016.
Ministers will also raise the option of extending it further, perhaps to 70 and beyond in the following decades.
The default retirement age of 65 &#8211; at which workers can be legally axed by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jigsaw-cfm.co.uk/pension-age-ministers-to-speed-up-rise-to-66-2/</link>
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		<title>NEST admin contract to be ‘re-examined’ &#8211; UPDATED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The computer contract for administering the National Employment Savings Trust – signed by the Labour government just months before they left office – will be re-examined, David Laws says.The chief secretary to the treasury said he had written to all secretaries of state asking them to re-examine all spending approvals since January 1 this year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jigsaw-cfm.co.uk/nest-admin-contract-to-be-%e2%80%98re-examined%e2%80%99-updated/</link>
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		<title>Pensions Tax Changes For High Earners</title>
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Pensions tax changes for high earners criticised










The government&#8217;s plans face growing criticism





The government&#8217;s plans to tax the pension contributions of high earners have been criticised as &#8220;complex, unfair and inefficient&#8221;.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) also says many wealthy people will simply alter their pay arrangements to avoid the new taxes.
From April 2011, the government [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jigsaw-cfm.co.uk/pensions-tax-changes-for-high-earners/</link>
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		<title>TCS bags £600mn UK pension deal</title>
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Software major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is all set to bag a £ 600 million outsourcing contract from the UK Government for managing a state-sponsored pension scheme that is still in the works.
UK&#8217;s Personal Accounts Delivery Authority said on Tuesday that TCS has emerged the successful bidder for a ten-year arrangement to ‘set up&#8217; and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jigsaw-cfm.co.uk/tcs-bags-600mn-uk-pension-deal/</link>
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		<title>Conservatives plan to restore dividend tax credit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Conservatives will reverse the effects of Labours abolition of dividend tax credit for pension funds.


Following George Osborne&#8217;s speech on the economy earlier today, the Party has published details of its plans to improve Britain&#8217;s savings record.
The document, &#8220;A New Economic Model: Eight benchmarks for Britain&#8221;, revealed the Conservatives plan to reverse the effects of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jigsaw-cfm.co.uk/conservatives-plan-to-restore-dividend-tax-credit/</link>
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		<title>Bank Of England Keeps Interest Rate On Hold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bank of England has announced its decision to hold the interest rate and pause its programme of pumping newly-created money into the economy.

The Monetary Policy Committee&#8217;s move was widely predicted by the City, including all members of the Sky News Money Panel. They expected the Bank to shift into &#8220;wait and see&#8221; mode to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jigsaw-cfm.co.uk/bank-of-england-keeps-interest-rate-on-hold/</link>
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		<title>Tories vow to axe compulsory annuities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Conservatives have pledged to scrap laws which force savers to purchase an annuity by age 75, if the party gets into power.
In a Tory document, A New Economic Model, published yesterday, shadow chancellor George Osborne said that he would axe the much maligned rule of compulsory annuitisation at age 75.
Under current laws, savers have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jigsaw-cfm.co.uk/tories-vow-to-axe-compulsory-annuities/</link>
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		<title>Pada settles on national employment savings trust (Nest) for personal accounts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (Pada) has announced that National Employment Savings Trust (Nest) will be the new permanent name for personal accounts, due to come into effect under workplace pensions reform in 2012.
Nest will be run by a not-for-profit trustee body, the Nest Corporation. Pada developed the brand identity after carrying out research among [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jigsaw-cfm.co.uk/pada-settles-on-national-employment-savings-trust-nest-for-personal-accounts/</link>
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