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Towards a social democratic pension system?
— Assessing the significance of the 2007 and 2008 Pensions Acts | | Author(s) | Paul Bridgen |
| Corporate Author | Social Policy Association |
| Journal title | IN: Social Policy Review, 22, Chapter 4, 2010 |
| Publisher | Policy Press, Bristol, 2010 |
| Pages | pp 71-96 |
| Source | The Policy Press, University of Bristol, Fourth Floor, Beacon House, Queen's Road, Bristol BS8 1QU. http://www.policypress.org.uk |
| Keywords | Pensions ; Social policy ; Labour. |
| Annotation | In recent years, pensions policy has been dominated by debate and legislation that followed the final report from the Pensions Commission (chaired by Adair Turner) in 2005. The Commission recommended a National Pensions Savings Scheme (NPSS) to which all employees not already covered by occupational pensions would be auto-enrolled. Following two White Papers in 2006, the Commission's recommendations were implemented in the 2007 and 2008 Pensions Acts: the NPSS, rebranded as Personal Accounts, would be implemented by 2012. The author raises doubts about the claim that the essence of the British liberal pensions regime has been unaffected by these recent reforms. He summarises the policy problems with which Labour was faced when it came to power in 1997 and its responses up to 2008. He uses an analytical framework to assess the 2007 and 2008 Acts on the basis of secondary data from previous analysis and policy simulations. While there has been an attempt to widen access to pensions, there is doubt as to how reform will develop under a Conservative government. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100727001 A |
| Classmark | JJ: TM2: VL3 |
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