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Exploding the myths
— the truth behind the state pension debate | | Author(s) | Joe Harris |
| Corporate Author | National Pensioners Convention - NPC |
| Publisher | National Pensioners Convention - NPC, 2003 |
| Pages | 27 pp |
| Source | NPC, 9 Arkwright Road, London NW3 6AB. www.natpencon.org.uk |
| Keywords | Pensions ; National insurance contributions ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | The government insists that it cannot afford to increase the provision of the National Insurance funded state pension system, which it controls. This pamphlet presents evidence about this and other pension "myths", which are based on an assumption that occupational pensions and the financial market are secure and open to all. Despite growing evidence of the unreliability of the private insurance sector, the 2002 Green Paper on pensions, "Simplicity, security and choice: working and saving for retirement" (Cm 5677), indicates the government's continued preference, presented in the 1998 Green Paper, "A new contract for welfare: partnership in pensions" (Cm 4179). Pensioners must therefore make the case for a state pension that is linked to earnings, free from means-testing and available to all. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030224204 B |
| Classmark | JJ: JBC: TM2 |
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