Iain Duncan Smith

IDS' comments on benefits focuseses Helen Morrissey's mind on state pensions

Iain Duncan Smith has confirmed plans for a flat-rate state pension are still going ahead.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has quashed rumours the government may unfreeze the pension of British expatriates.

Number 10 has announced that secretary for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith will remain in post after the cabinet reshuffle.

The leaders of the four biggest parties in the Welsh Assembly have urged Iain Duncan Smith to reinstate the full pensions of former Allied Steel and Wire workers.

Hewlett Packard loses £400m MoD scheme admin contract; Scots councils spend £127m on golden goodbyes; IDS declares war on overseas state pension fraud.

Labour pensions spokesman Gregg McClymont has warned Steve Webb lacks the "political weight" to drive through pension policy following the delay to auto-enrolment.

The Pensions Bill which raises the state pension age to 66 by 2020 has passed its third reading in the House of Commons with 287 votes to 242.

The government has announced a six month delay in the increase in the state pension age in 2020.

Labour has made a final attempt to change the government's reforms of women's state pensions.