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		<title>New flat-rate state pension plans unveiled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Plans for a new flat-rate state pension and a system to automatically raise the pension age have been published.
Plans for a new flat-rate state pension and a system to automatically raise the pension age have been published.
Under government proposals the existing means-tested arrangements would be replaced for new, but not existing, pensioners.The current full state [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jigsaw-cfm.co.uk/new-flat-rate-state-pension-plans-unveiled/</link>
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		<title>4.5 million over-50s expect to work past retirement age</title>
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Twice as many women than men expect to retire after their state retirement age
2.7 million over-50s keep working because they can&#8217;t afford to retire


One in five (4.3 million) over-50s had retired but have since gone back into work
Recent government changes to pensions leave two-fifths of over-50s believing their pensions savings will be worse off

4.5 million [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jigsaw-cfm.co.uk/4-5-million-over-50s-expect-to-work-past-retirement-age/</link>
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		<title>Over 50s heading for retirement with no pension</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest MetLife Europe survey evidence continues to point to a worsening of our pensions crisis.  Even among those closest to retirement, there is a lack of trust in pensions, as a third of workers are not saving in a pension.  People have clearly lost confidence in pensions and the situation is deteriorating. 
Saga&#8217;s recent Survey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jigsaw-cfm.co.uk/over-50s-heading-for-retirement-with-no-pension/</link>
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		<title>All firms must offer pensions, government agrees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The government has agreed that all UK businesses, regardless of size, should offer a company pension scheme or enrol their staff into the new National Employment Savings Trust (Nest). 
Nest is due to start next year, with all firms joining by September 2016. 
The government says it will mean that between four million and eight million workers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jigsaw-cfm.co.uk/all-firms-must-offer-pensions-government-agrees/</link>
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		<title>Retirement planning falls by the wayside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost half of workers under the age of 50 do not think they are doing enough to prepare for retirement, according to Scottish Widows.
Amongst employees under the age of 50, 49 per cent admit to not doing enough now to be financially prepared for their retirement, the latest Workplace Pensions Report from Scottish Widows shows, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jigsaw-cfm.co.uk/retirement-planning-falls-by-the-wayside/</link>
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		<title>47% of women do not have pension provision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Research by Baring Asset Management has shown that 47% of women who have not yet retired in the UK have not made any pension provision.
This figure has gradually been increasing year-on-year and for 2009 and 2008 was 40% and 39% respectively.
The research highlights other areas of concern:

22% of people aged 55 &#8211; 64 do not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jigsaw-cfm.co.uk/47-of-women-do-not-have-pension-provision/</link>
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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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