Pensions Goth loves to explain what’s going on in pensions, what Government, industry and regulators are up to and what changes might mean for members. Pensions Goth loves cats, heavy metal music and is passionate about the truth, data and making sense of pensions.
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Is Australia’s pension tax fix relevant for the UK?
Australia has a feature in its pension system that changes how tax is applied to pension saving for people on low incomes and shows how support can be distributed differently. In Australian superannuation, contributions are taxed at 15% when they enter the fund, and for most workers this…
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Conflict highlights inconsistencies in the system
The conflict with Iran is a reminder of something we tend to ignore: the system works as long as things move slowly and struggles when they don’t. Retirement income is built on that assumption. Prices change gradually and incomes adjust slowly. Over time, things broadly work but conflict…
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Nest Insight and enrolling the self employed
Ruth and Will kindly talked me through Nest Insight’s work with the self employed Pensions Goth: Let’s start with the trials you’re running how they work in practice. Will Sandbrook: We’ve been running a programme of work on the self-employed for several years. Early research explored attitudes to…
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Member representation is fading but the case for it has not gone away
The TUC launched a report yesterday (researched and written by me) looking at the decline of member voice in pension trustee boards. Member representation is declining not because anyone made a conscious decision to remove member trustees. It is the result of changes in the pensions landscape. The…
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Anna Brain talks about accessing pensions for housing
I talk to Anna Brain about Nest Insight’s housing and pensions project Pensions Goth: What were you trying to find out when you started the Housing and Pensions Project, and how did you go about it? Anna: The Housing and Pensions Project started because there has been growing…
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We keep missing the PIP shaped elephant in the debate
You don’t have to look far to find accounts from disability benefit claimants who say their evidence has been misunderstood, minimised, or recorded in a way they don’t recognise. The Work and Pensions Committee has raised concerns about PIP assessments and the way contractors and processes can shape…