Iain Duncan Smith

The government has delivered on its promise to support pensioners and laid the ground for further reforms, Iain Duncan Smith claims.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has promised that the goverment will create a transitional arrangement for women hit hardest by the rise in the state pension age.

The Labour opposition should have come up with a solution to help women disproportionately hit by the rise in the state pension age to 66 by 2020, pensions minister Steve Webb says.

Iain Duncan Smith has said there will be no u-turn on controversial proposals to raise the women's state pension age to 66 by 2020.

The second reading of the Pensions Bill, which will accelerate the state pension age increase for half a million women, will take place today.

Jonathan Stapleton asks: Has coalition delivered?

The government has set out its intention to "transform pension saving" with the launch of a green paper consultation on a flat-rate state pension.

There is "no overriding reason" why a merger of National Insurance and income tax should not go ahead, a consultant says.

Secretary of state for work and pensions Iain Duncan Smith set out the coalition's plans for radical state pension reform yesterday.

Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has laid out plans for basic state pension reform in a bid to create a "state pensions system fit for a 21st century welfare system".