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Pensions minister Steve Webb has again vowed to clamp down on companies offering a "bung of cash" to staff who give up defined benefit pensions.

The Royal Mail's £10.3bn pensions deficit will be taken on by the tax-payer next spring as legislation to privatise the service is expected to become law next week.

The Prime Minister has become embroiled in the row over raising the state pension age for women.

Pension Corp buys £60m of Toray liabilities; Young people leave saving for pension too late, report warns; Liberal Democrat revolt over plan to raise women's pension age; Pensioners trade eating for heating says report

The Postal Services Bill has been amended in the House of Lords to safeguard the Royal Mail Pension Plan if the scheme is broken up in future.

Campaigners protesting plans to accelerate the increase in state pension age handed a petition with more than 10,000 signatures to the government yesterday.

Women receive lower pensions; Public sector workers vote on strike action over pension reforms; Female pension campaigners to march on parliament

Visteon campaigners will descend on parliament on Tuesday to mark the second anniversary of the firm's demise and put pressure on former employer Ford over pensions.

The National Association of Pension Funds is lobbying government to add a new objective for The Pensions Regulator - forcing it to promote the survival of workplace pensions.

SLOVENIA - The Constitutional Court has ruled that a referendum on pension changes approved by Parliament can take place, a move that will delay public spending cuts and may prompt a rating downgrade.