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Workplace pensions: more bang for our buck needed

The  private pensions market has been sent a welcome wake-up call by the report of the Workplace Retirement Income Commission, chaired by Lord McFall. The report says that although auto-enrolment into...

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Simplifying small pension pots

This blog first appeared in Money Marketing The growing  number of people with multiple small pension pots has been an issue for too long. The government itself  has calculated there will be an...

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How are the current policies of UK government and businesses meeting the...

1.4 million people in the UK are now aged over 85 and the numbers of older people continue to rise. Age UK’s new report, Agenda for Later Life 2012, looks at how public policy is meeting the challenges...

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Budget 2013: did the Chancellor deliver for older people?

Following statements from the Chancellor prior to the budget, it seemed that older people were due to benefit from significant changes to the future funding structures of social care and pensions....

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Ready for ageing?

All too often, our ageing population is represented as an unmitigated disaster for the nation and the words ‘ticking timebomb’ appear with monotonous regularity. A new report from the House of Lords...

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Meeting the challenges of an ageing population

Each year, Age UK stands back and takes an overview of how society is meeting the needs of people in later life and sets out our agenda for public policy in the year ahead. In our Agenda for Later Life...

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Health, wealth + the pursuit of happiness = a sustainable retirement income

In this blog post, Jane Vass, Head of Public Policy at Age UK, discusses the secret to a sustainable retirement income. After speaking at a recent ILC-UK event as part of its ‘Sustainable Older...

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A great place to grow older?

Today, we launched our Agenda for Later Life 2015 report, Age UK’s annual assessment of how public policy is meeting the needs of older people. Here, Jane Vass, Head of Public Policy, discuss the...

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Brain ageing – understanding the implications for financial services

On 3 February Age UK hosted a symposium in London for the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Ageing, on the impact of ageing and cognitive impairment on the financial services industry. Jane...

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Pension scams: not quite there yet

From medieval conmen persuading people to hand over hard cash for worthless ‘holy relics’, to Charles Ponzi promising amazing returns on the back of earlier victims’ money,  fraudsters have always been...

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Heatwaves – a hot topic

After such a wet winter, a bit of sun may sound like no bad thing, but people often underestimate the effect of high temperatures on older people: the 2003 heatwave led to an alarming 22 per cent...

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