Reducing pension tax-free lump sum to £100k a ‘high risk’, Reeves warned
Pensions minister Torsten Bell has previously called for the tax-free cash amount to be capped Rachel Reeves has…
State pensioners could legally avoid paying tax and boost payments by £694 a year
Older Britons can avoid paying tax on their state pension payments thanks to a useful retirement savings hack,…
State Pension uprating will not be paid to thousands of older people in April
Around 453,000 older people will not get new State Pension payments during the 2026/27 financial year. The latest…
Top French union leader says entire pensions system should be rebuilt – POLITICO
Momentum to suspend the reform, which remains unpopular, has grown in recent days after the collapse of a…
Who wants to be the next prime minister of France? – POLITICO
Here are some profiles that are on the docket. A team captain Jean-Louis Borloo, a former minister who…
French Socialists still waiting for concessions from Macron after talks on next PM – POLITICO
The French president has given his outgoing prime minister until Wednesday night to try to find a compromise…
Europe’s pension system reform could bring boost to risk assets
Europe’s growing productivity gap to the US and China in particular could be closed with the help of…
Babiš wins Czech vote, preliminary results show – POLITICO
Based on past election experience, the State Election Commission, which is compiling provisional results from more than 14,800 locations across…
DWP urges Brits to check if they’re owed £8,300 in State Pension back payments
More than 370,000 people have been contacted to say they could be owed an average of £8,377 in…
French PM tries to save skin by ruling out use of constitutional backdoor – POLITICO
Boris Vallaud, a key Socialist Party leader, reacted with skepticism on FranceInfo immediately after the announcement and noted…