The state pension cost an estimated £146bn a year in 2025, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The think-tank believes the triple lock could help push the expense up by as much as £40bn in ...

The ONS defines as a household that has at least three quarters of its total income provided by the state pension or other ...

Analysis of Office for National Statistics data has found around 740,000 single retirees and 500,000 retired two adult ...

More than 1.2 million retired households in the UK are economically inactive and largely dependent on the State Pension for ...

Pension Credit claims can also be backdated by up to three months and unlock access to other financial support.

On the go: One-10th of the UK population held more private pension wealth than the rest of the country combined between 2018 and 2020, new research has revealed. According to the Office for National ...

Setting minimum size requirements for workplace DC schemes used for auto-enrolment, plus limits on the number of default arrangements; and Overriding provisions in individual pension contracts to ...

Over-66s relying solely on the State Pension are not receiving enough money for a 'good standard of living', figures show ...

On the go: Since the introduction of auto-enrolment in 2012, the proportion of UK employees enrolled in a workplace pension has soared from 47 per cent to 76 per cent in 2018, according to research ...