Rachel Reeves

The Labour Party has switched to using the Consumer Prices Index for uprating its own pension scheme despite repeatedly attacking the government for making the change possible.

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.

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

The government must move forward with the Pensions Bill before the summer recess, Labour pensions spokeswoman Rachel Reeves says.

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

Pensions minister Steve Webb has delayed the second reading of the Pensions Bill.

Pensions minister Steve Webb will unveil plans for a universal flat-rate pension to be introduced in 2015 or 2016, later today.

Measures to accelerate the equalisation of the state pension age have been slammed after amendments to the Pensions Bill to ease their impact were defeated in the Lords.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has confirmed that a single flat-rate pension is one of a range of options that will be explored in a green paper to be published shortly.