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Pensions expert calls for auto-enrolment age and income cut-off to be lowered

Ray McKenna, partner at pension specialist Lockton, said current thresholds meant women in particular would miss out on help to save adequate retirement income

Workers can check out, but never leave: Can the government’s controversial plan defuse the pensions timebomb?

The state’s new scheme for the 750,000 private sector workers who do not have a private pension aims to generate a pension pot of €21 billion within a decade. But opinion is already divided over whether it will work

Employers will be obliged to contribute to the pensions of 750,000 workers

Workers earning between between €20,000 and €80,000 will be signed up under the state’s new opt-in scheme

Poll shows lack of support for pension rescue strategies

There appears to be little public enthusiasm for the Commission on Pensions’ strategies to defuse the ticking pensions timebomb

Ian Guider: Kicking the pensions can down the road won’t pay off

The short-term strategy of either avoiding or opposing changes to the pension age will leave citizens and the economy short of hundreds of billions of euro

Group of retired state employees due for bumper pension increase due to high inflation

Some 500 retirees are in line for a 5.5% pension hike

Brian Keegan: the government should continue the Covid-19 habit of trusting experts when it comes to the retirement age debate

There is no evidence to support the status quo, so why are politicians still waiting to make a decision?

Auto-enrolment pension scheme set for end of 2023

Every worker on a salary of over €20,000 will be automatically ‘opted-in’ to the pension scheme, the rollout of which was delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic

Ticking timebomb: Can the Pensions Commission find the solutions to a problem the government may not want to solve?

How can we pay for the state pension, with a changing demographic making this more and more difficult? And should the pension itself be reduced, or raised? The Pension Committee’s conclusions on such explosive issues have now been pushed back to September

ESRI moots extending PRSI to pensioners

Move suggested as number of pensioners increases to 150,000 and annual state pension bill rises to €8bn

800k private pensioners face 42% hike in supervision fees under government proposal

Private pensions regulator has applied for its annual fee income to rise from €7m to €10m next year