State pensioners will get an inflation-busting 8.5% rise in April. This will take the weekly new full state pension payment to £221. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has also said the Conservative Party ...
Initially, the overhaul included a cap of a maximum two years' extra wait for a state pension, but protests led to the cap being reduced to 18 months. Some 2.6million women got five years' notice ...
The BBC spoke to women hit by the pension age change for their reaction to the report. Carole Cooper, 68, from south Cambridgeshire, says the government has "stolen £45,000" from her. She should ...
What is the pension tax-free lump sum? You're encouraged to save into a pension through pension tax relief - basically a government top-up to your contributions. Income drawn from pensions, however, ...
He has been on a fast, since the protests started on March 6, in the open in sub-zero temperatures and surviving only on salt and water. Wangchuk, also an engineer working on solutions for ...
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Thousands of people in the remote region of Ladakh have been protesting for over two weeks in freezing temperatures, demanding constitutional provisions from the Indian ...