Ros Altmann: Pensions industry must help workers build up savings
Opinion piece in the Yorkshire Post calling for the pensions industry to help workers be enthusiastic about building their pensions ( link to pdf )
Uprating frozen pensions to cost £3bn
FT Adviser – Frozen pensioners still left out in the cold as Government estimates £3.1bn cost – but Brexit decisions for EU expats could set precedent. ( link to pdf )
Make firms pay more in tax if they hand their bosses’ huge pension gains, demands former minister
Reduce tax or NI relief if bosses pay themselves much bigger pensions than other staff – This is Money article. ( link to pdf )
Ros Altmann: Amber Rudd is right to issue pensions warning – here’s why
Amber Rudd gets tough on bosses who fail to fund pensions properly – Ros article in Yorkshire Post supporting her decision
Brexit could mean more frozen pensioners as State Pensions of those retired in the EU put at risk– Government must sort this out
Post on Ros’s blog.
Dangers of the current Brexit course
Ros spoke in the House of Lords on the dangers of the current Brexit course.
Politicians have already honoured the result of the 2016 referendum
Prsopect Magazine article – we have already honoured the Referendum – but that doesn’t mean we must leave regardless of the consequences. Parliament must ensure the people support its way forward. ( link to pdf )
Ros Altmann: Brexit was sold under false pretences and is much worse than every pensions mis-selling scandal
Yorkshire Post opinion piece by Ros on the problems of the Brexit campaign and why it’s not safe to rely on the result without checking for confirmation.
Brexit ‘like a pensions mis-selling scandal’, says Baroness Ros Altmann
Brexit was a great mis-selling scandal – Ros interviewed on TalkRadio trying to get a word in edgewise with Julia Hartley-Brewer. ( link to pdf )
Baroness Altmann: “17.4 million people didn’t vote for no deal. The risks were not made clear.”
Ros was interviewed by Julia Hartley-Brewer on Talk Radio and tried to help listeners understand the risks of a No Deal Brexit and that it would be like a mis-selling scandal, where the risks are not explained by the pension salesman and you only find out later that the risks existed. Julia just dismisses all the risks and says they won’t exist. ( link to pdf )