Pension saving at record high

26 February 2015 — Press release

Pension saving at record high

Britain now has the highest level of pension saving since records began in 1997.

Latest

  1. HB Circular A4/2015: Defined contribution pension fund options from 6 April 2015

    • published 27 February 2015
    • Guidance

  2. Appointment of new Trustees to the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) Corporation

    • published 27 February 2015
    • Press release

  3. Changes to the law on investments in occupational pension schemes

    • published 27 February 2015
    • Open consultation
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to over 22 million claimants and customers.

DWP is a ministerial department, supported by 14 agencies and public bodies.

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  1. Helping to reduce poverty and improve social justice

    How the government is working to help people overcome complex problems that lead to poverty, to help them change the course of their lives

  2. Simplifying the welfare system and making sure work pays

    Making the welfare system fairer, more affordable and better able to reduce poverty, worklessness and welfare dependency.

  3. Helping people to find and stay in work

    How the government is getting Britain working and helping people break the cycle of benefit dependency.

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Our announcements

  1. Appointment of new Trustees to the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) Corporation

    • 27 February 2015
    • Press release

  2. Iain Duncan Smith: It pays to save

    • 26 February 2015
    • Speech

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Our consultations

  1. Changes to the law on investments in occupational pension schemes

    • 27 February 2015
    • Open consultation

  2. Occupational and personal pension schemes: disclosure of information regulations amendments

    • 12 February 2015
    • Consultation outcome

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Our publications

  1. HB Circular A4/2015: Defined contribution pension fund options from 6 April 2015

    • 27 February 2015
    • Guidance

  2. Government response to the Work Capability Assessment independent review year 5

    • 27 February 2015
    • Policy paper

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Our statistics

  1. Work Capability Assessment support group outcomes and disability benefit history of ESA claimants

    • 27 February 2015
    • Statistics

  2. Youth Contract official statistics: August 2014

    • 27 February 2015
    • Statistics

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