This channel is designed to provide information for all pensioners - whether you are on State Pension only or an Occupational or Private pension or Social Security or a combination or otherwise.  
We are constantly adding to this channel - if there is a topic you feel we should be highlighting - please drop us an e-mail with your suggestions or - even better - your own story or article!  . 

• Getting a State Pension forecast

•  The basic State Pension

• Changes to state pension
   

• Pensions at a Glance: Public Policies across OECD Countries 2005 Edition

• Public Sector Rich list -PDF

• Major survey finds workplace pensions in smaller firms - which employ well over half of the UK workforce - are under growing threat

• Baby boomer Britons reject traditional retirement

• Who pays for our pension?

• Pension Crisis - series of articles

• FSA urges consumers to take stock on their pensions - "A" day

• Turner Report Q&A

• Turner report - Executive Summary

• Are you losing out in pension payments? by Cliffe Webb

• Pension NEWS Citizens Pension - Differing views

• Do you want a 'citizen's pension'?  - Money Telegraph  15/12/2004

• State Pensions Models around the world by Pensions Policy Institute - July 2003

• State Pension Forecast - An individual pension forecast will tell you the current value of the State Pension you have already earned and the amount you can expect at State Pension age. You will find a forecast helpful if you are trying to plan your pension.

• State Pension Increases   a revised table showing pension level over last 26 years and the percentage increase  - putting the pension "increases" in a very poor light!  It also shows Labour in a poor light vs the Tories

• SERPS

• State Second Pension

• Major Survey - over half of final salary schemes closed to new staff.

• Winter Fuel allowance

• Equitable Life Members Support Group

• Better Pensions For Women - new campaign - new pages

• Pension Basics  Lots of information - All about picking the right pension, Final salary, Money Purchase, SERPS, Group Personal Schemes, Annuities - Example Tables etc

• Pensions Briefing by National Assembly of Women  Retired women in the UK get a very poor deal and vast numbers are left to cope on tiny incomes for the last period of their lives.

• Download in Word Format
  Pension reform and Economic Performance in Britain in the 1980S & 1990s by Richard Disney, Carl Emmerson and Sarah Smith 
  
  Occupational Pensions - Danger looms!!  T >here are signs that a major change of company pensions could leave millions of Britons facing poverty in their old age.

• FSA - Financing the future - their way!! > 
  
  Pensions Organisations  A variety of Pensions organisations mainly for those with private pensions or occupational pensions.  Some will help you to choose your IFA - others are there for your pension protection

• Private Pensions - The Basics!  >Pensions are really terribly important, especially at a time when the government is talking of reducing dependancy on the State Pension. Choosing a private pension can be terribly confusing.

• Advice Lines snippets of information on pensions and benefits - links to useful sources of information 

• Pensioners Guide - England & Wales -  making the most of government help and advice - - a must for pensioners!
• Pensioners Guide - Scotland As Above

• SERPS Some useful information on State Earnings Related Pension Scheme

• Irish State Pensions  by BPTUAA  we should be so lucky!  The boat for Ireland  is fully booked! Health Warning!  Reading this will make you jealous!

• EEC  Pension Objectives  The Commission adopted on 3rd July 2001 a Communication on Supporting national strategies for safe and sustainable pensions through an integrated approach outlining 10 objectives

• £200 per week pension?  Is this Science Fiction or another hare brained scheme?  A RADICAL plan to deliver a guaranteed State pension of more than £200 a week was unveiled by a group of MPs and experts recently. The Pensions Reform Group, headed by former welfare minister Frank Field, proposed the Universal Protected Pension to take over from the Government's controversial new stakeholder scheme.