Tax the old
Britain cannot afford to bribe well-off pensioners any longer. Rachel Reeves must invest in the young
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Mel Stride’s tax rebate for the young is a wealth transfer to pensioners
The shadow chancellor’s Britain would be a pension pot with a state attached
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The pensioners who decide government policy
Winter fuel is not the only untouchable benefit for this electorally powerful cohort.
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Exclusive: the state pension is being siphoned off abroad
And HMRC has no idea where it’s going to.
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Donald Trump’s gamble with your pension
The US President’s tariff experiment took an £8,000 chunk out of the typical worker’s retirement savings.
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Labour humoured the Waspi women for too long
Keir Starmer is paying the price for failing to distance himself from a Corbyn-era promise.
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PMQs review: Kemi Badenoch misses every target
The Conservative leader strays even further out of her depth in an anticlimactic showdown to end the year.
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Rachel Reeves’s retirement revolution
The Chancellor is pushing through bold and inventive reforms but the wider picture for Britain’s economy is far from rosy.
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It’s time for elderly millionaires to taste austerity
For higher earners, retirement contributions are fantastic value, mostly thanks to the munificence of the state.
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The unbearable predictability of the Tories’ war on young people
Rishi Sunak has a long history of putting himself on the wrong side of his own dividing lines.
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“The next Post Office scandal”: how HMRC persecutes the victims of fraud
People who have lost their savings or had their identities co-opted have found themselves being pursued by the tax authorities.
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Do pensions hold the key to the UK’s net zero transition?
New research shows that pension funds could quadruple what they invest in climate solutions.
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Pensions, policyholders and the planet
It’s time to put the nation’s retirement savings to work more effectively to counter climate change.
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The £92,762 gender wealth gap that is hurting the economy
Analysis exclusive to New Statesman Spotlight reveals the huge disparities between men and women in pensions and savings.
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Hands off the triple lock
The policy has reduced grim pensioner poverty – and politicians tinkering with it will not lessen inequality.
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The triple lock is an economic absurdity
Ending an expensive and haphazard pension system would be an act of fiscal sanity.
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Tory wrangles overshadow Sunak’s G20 return
With discussions over whether to ditch the pensions triple lock and more Tory groups being founded, the battle for the…
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Corporate super-profits are not pensioners’ friends
Critics say windfall taxes will hit pension funds and negatively impact ordinary households. The evidence suggests otherwise.
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Why the trope of the benefit “scrounger” has returned
Welfare minister Tom Pursglove quotes Taken to try to sound tough on welfare “fraudsters”.
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Emmanuel Macron’s appeasement tour is off to a rough start
As he visits the regions, can the French leader move on from the pension reform protests and relaunch his presidency?
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