Pensions

New and updated

• Workplace pensions

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect that the Pension Schemes Bill, which includes provisions on the Pensions Regulator's powers, collective defined-contribution schemes, pensions dashboards and pension transfers, has been reintroduced into Parliament.

• State pension

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to include information on the proposed benefit and pension rates for 2020/2021.

• State pension

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include the proposed single-tier pension and basic state pension rates for 2020/21.

• Occupational pensions and employment law

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect that Regulations to extend civil partnerships to couples not of the same sex in England and Wales came into force on 2 December 2019, and to include references to the position in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

• Mixed-sex civil partnerships are introduced in England and Wales

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 enable mixed-sex couples in England and Wales to form civil partnerships.

• Consultation on simplifying annual benefit statements for workplace pensions

  Type:

  Consultations

  The Government consults on the options for improving the content and presentation of information provided to members through their annual workplace pension benefit statements.

• New pensions dashboard service introduced

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  Individuals can see information about their pension by accessing an online service.

• Consultation into NHS pensions flexibility launched

  Date:

  12 September 2019

  Type:

  News

  A new consultation into NHS pension changes designed to enable senior clinicians to work additional shifts without facing prohibitive tax bills has been launched.

• Government admits defeat in police pensions legal battle

  Date:

  6 August 2019

  Type:

  News

  The government has conceded defeat over its attempt to alter police pensions in 2015, acknowledging that moving police officers to new police pension schemes, based on their age, is discriminatory.

• Never mind the gender pay gap: here's the gender pensions gap

  Date:

  26 July 2019

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  There have been exhaustive discussions on the gender pay gap, but what about the huge chasm between women's pension wealth and what men are able to accumulate for retirement? Nikki Thompson explains.