Pickering gives approval to £140 basic state pension

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A basic state pension of £140 per week would be a genuine step forward, a former chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds and long-term campaigner says.

Alan Pickering - the current chairman of BESTrustees and Life Academy and author of an eponymous review for the DWP in 2002 - said he was surprised the government had moved so quickly to announce i...

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