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Employment rates for people beyond State Pension Age remained resilient throughout the 2008 recession - bucking the trend of the rest of the workforce, statistics reveal.

Con Keating looks behind recent scare stories about an unaffordable nation of centenarians to separate fact from fear mongering

The Consumer Price Index is a bad measure for uprating pensions and needs to be replaced with a measure to include housing costs, the Royal Statistical Society says.

Inflation figures published today prove the government is making poor people worse off by using CPI for measuring pension payment increases, Labour says.

Cuts to the Office for National Statistics budget could place private pension statistical research under threat, an analyst warns.

Falls in liabilities relating to the shift from RPI to CPI for scheme indexation will shrink dramatically after the Office for National Statistics said it would include housing costs in the measure, industry experts say.

Active membership in private sector defined benefit schemes declined by 200,000 to 2.4 million in 2009 but remained constant in the public sector, official statistics show.

Almost two-thirds of single female pensioners receive less than £5,000 a year in private pension payments, statistics show.