How child maintenance payments work in the UK
Child maintenance can also be built into “spousal maintenance payments” as part of a financial agreement in a divorce.Spousal maintenance...
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Millions of pensioners could face bank account inspections
Sir Stephen Timms, chair of the work and pensions committee, warned that ministers had failed to make a convincing case...
Why should pensioners suffer while striking civil servants get bonuses?
SIR – Tweaking the triple lock would mean that pensioners miss out on up to £74 a year (report, September...
they won’t get a state pension
When Mr Asquith designed the old age pension, which began on 1 January 1909, it was five shillings a week...
Why the state pension cannot survive without immigration
David Bell, the current chairman of the Migration Advisory Committee, says international students are also barred from taking benefits and...
One in 20 retirees underpaid state pension as errors hit record high
Retirees missed out on more than £500m in state pension payments in the last tax year due to thousands of...
The map that shows Britain’s state pension divide
Steven Cameron, of the pension provider Aegon, said it would be a "disaster" if the policy handed early state pension...
