7 h. ago State pension: How to check yours, how to buy missing years and everything you need to know

Figuring out what you’ll have saved up for retirement can be a daunting task – here’s what you need to know

Economics

27 h. ago State Pension inheritance rule helps more than two million people boost payments by over £5,000

More than half a million pensioners were receiving over £5,000 a year in inherited Serps payments in 2023/24.

Economics

28 h. ago Workers could get a £1,000 pension boost as DWP proposes new rule for providers

Millions of workers are missing out on their hard-earned pension savings

Economics

30 h. ago DWP announces £1,000 retirement savings boost under new plans for small pension pots

Pensions Minister Torsten Bell said there are now more small pension pots in the UK than pensioners.

Economics

39 h. ago Pensions worth up to £1k could be merged automatically: New plan to deal with 13m tiny pots

The Government says in time the move could boost the retirement savings of the average worker by around £1,000 due to reduced costs.

Economics

39 h. ago Retirement boost for savers with plans to scoop up smaller pension pots

The Government said some 13 million small pots hold £1,000 or less.

Politics

3 d. ago Grandparents told they could boost State Pension by £1,000s with one little

They could boost their State Pension if they helped care for a young family member

Economics

3 d. ago How to protect your PIP payments from DWP reforms due to start next year

The DWP has set out proposed changes to eligibility and assessments for new and existing claimants.

Politics

4 d. ago Older couples on weekly State Pension less than £346 could be due annual income boost of £4,300

Pension Credit claims can be backdated by up to three months and provide access to heating help next winter.

Economics

4 d. ago Recruitment worker wins £25,000 after her bosses moved office without telling her while she was on maternity leave

Anna Munkevics told a tribunal that after taking a year off to care for her newborn, she returned to her Hereford workplace only to find the building had been 'cleared out'.

Economics

4 d. ago 450,000 Brits living abroad won't get State Pension boost despite making payments

The UK Government's 'frozen pensions' policy means that nearly half a million British pensioners living abroad won't benefit from the annual uprating of the State Pension

Economics

4 d. ago Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman review – don’t just stand there, do something

An altruistic companion to Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks aims to encourage anyone with a conscience to stop being a spectatorMany years ago there was a BBC children’s TV programme called Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?. Its aim was to encourage kids to spending their summer holidays helping grannies across the street or litter-picking rather than lying on the sofa filling their faces with cheese puffs. If I’m anything to go by, it didn’t work.Moral Ambition is Why Don’t You? for grownups, written by a Dutch historian but deploying psychologically sophisticated nudge techniques, shaming devices and a hectoring imperative mood to encourage clever if spiritually bankrupt people like you (no offence) to do something beyond making mortgage payments by means of a job you hate. Don’t you realise that the average worker will spend 80,000 hours at their job and, judging by the look of you (again, no offence), 79,999 of th...

Politics

4 d. ago The violent thugs who thought they could get away with attacking police officers

Assaults on police officers in Wales are on the increase with over 3,000 assaults committed on emergency workers between July 2023 and June 2024

Events

6 d. ago Shop worker who stole £40,000 from tills was spending £100 a week on lottery tickets and scratch cards

Jailing mum-of-two Rebecca Hanford a judge said she had "squandered" her employer's money

Economics

1 week ago People due to retire this year could boost annual State Pension payments by up to £694

The New State Pension will be worth up to £11,973 over the 2025/26 financial year.

Economics

1 week ago New update on calls to scrap proposed DWP changes to benefits for disabled people

More than 10,000 people have signed an online petition urging the UK Government to halt welfare reforms.

Politics

1 week ago City giant's bid to lure 110,000 workers back to the office with free lunch Fridays

Employees working at WPP headquarters in the capital had previously only been required to go into the office three days a week.

Politics

1 week ago London’s most desirable neighbourhoods have lost 11,000 workers

London’s most desirable neighbourhoods have lost 11,000 workers  AFR

Politics

1 week ago London’s Most Desirable Neighborhoods Have Lost 11,000 Workers

London’s Most Desirable Neighborhoods Have Lost 11,000 Workers  Bloomberg.com

Politics

2 w. ago Martin Lewis reveals how you can still get £50,000 state pension top

Money expert Martin Lewis has shared how people can still get a state pension top-up if they were one of thousands that were locked out of securing their entitlement due to a HMRC error.

Economics