Do you know how much working part time or taking a career break for childcare could affect your pension? We teamed up with the experts to look into the issue.
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How can we fix the parent pension penalty?
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Retirement
Posts tagged with "retirement"
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How do your generation’s finances compare with others?
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Do you think your generation is better or worse off than people of other ages? Our guest, the Financial Conduct Authority, wants to hear your thoughts.
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How can we tackle rip-off pension charges?
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Our guest, Angela Eagle MP, sets out how we can tackle rip-off pension fees, and asks if you’ve been affected.
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First pensions dashboards expected this year
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With workers averaging 11 pension pots over their lifetimes, a dashboard gathering all that information into one place could be a game changer.
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Pensions dashboard: a simpler way to save for retirement?
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The pensions dashboard could revolutionise the way we plan for retirement – our guest Guy Opperman MP, Minister for Pensions and Financial Inclusion, makes the case for it.
Frequent myths about paying for care in a care home
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When we were building our new Later Life Care website, we did a lot of research to ensure it would be as helpful as possible. Do you have an experience of arranging care in a care home to share?
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Do you know how much care costs in your area?
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It’s well known that care home costs can be high, but do people really know the full extent of what they might have to pay?
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Have you planned for care in later life?
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Only a small fraction of us are planning for care costs in later life, according to our new research. How concerned should we be?
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How easy is it to plan for your retirement?
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Some of you will be well practised in checking your savings and may even have a retirement savings plan in place. Others, however, will not. Guy Opperman MP, Minister for Pensions and Financial Inclusion, explains how consumers are being empowered in the pension industry to encourage people to save for their future.
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A pensions dashboard – what should that look like?
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From our health and fitness to finances and travel, we’ve increasingly moved online to manage our lives. Now imagine you could better manage your retirement savings by simply downloading an app or logging in online – what would that look like and how would you use it?
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Pension savings: can you be trusted with your money?
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Since 2015, many people have had greater flexibility in how they access their private pensions as part of the so-called ‘pension freedoms’. But how good are you at managing your pension savings?
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How difficult is it to find a care home?
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In recent weeks, we’ve heard from guest authors Fred and PamS who’ve arranged care and hundreds of people who’ve shared their care home experiences. This insight combined with our latest research has revealed a sorry picture of the care system with the majority struggling to find good care.
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Have you got enough money saved for your retirement?
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According to our latest investigation, those looking for a comfortable retirement should be saving £131 a month from the age of 20, and as much as £633 a month if you leave retirement saving until your 50th birthday. So how are your retirement savings shaping up?
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Could robots be our carers?
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Growing up watching TV shows like Metal Mickey and films like Star Wars, I used to dream of having my own personal robot. But that dream now seems a little closer to reality…