The States met yesterday (Wednesday 25 May) to debate secondary pensions, a number of speeches were made before a surcis was placed to defer the debate.

Guernsey's debate on pensions delayed until November

Susan Dalton, 66, and Alan Barratt, 62, helped con 245 victims out of a total of £13.7 million over two years.

Jail for multimillion-pound pension fraudsters who duped victims of life savings

A pensioner with leukaemia is taking extraordinary measures like wearing her hat, scarf and gloves indoors to avoid heating her home.

Pensioner with Leukaemia wears hat and gloves indoors to avoid heating home

Irene Wise. ITV News. Screengrab from pensions VT. 210122

ITV News spoke to Irene Wise and Jan Tiernan - two of 134,000 women who have been underpaid by the Department for Work and Pensions.

'Women have to fight for everything' - DWP underpaid pension for eight years

Some 134,000 pensioners have been underpaid, estimated the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

Could you have lost out on money due to errors in payments of state pensions?

Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey confirmed the triple lock on pensions will be temporarily scrapped because of the impact of the Covid pandemic.

Pension triple lock to be suspended as Tories break another manifesto pledge

Older islanders are being invited to join an online focus group to discuss the issue as part of a study by the Employment and Social Security Committee.

Pensioners invited to give views on minimum income standards in Guernsey

Young female savers can expect to have £100,000 less on average in their retirement pots than their male counterparts, Scottish Widows said.

Women 'can expect to have £100,000 less than men' in pensions pot 

Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey was the first person to enter the home of Sergei Skripal in 2018. 

Police Officer poisoned by Novichok 'fighting for his pension'

The Court of Appeal has ruled controversial reforms affecting women born in the 1950s were not discriminatory.

Women vow to continue fight over pension changes

A Dorset woman says she does not know how she will survive if an appeal against the government's changes to the state pension age changes is rejected.

Woman does not know how she will survive if appeal against state pension fails

Pension protestors marching past the Nissan plant in Sunderland. 

Nissan say "the level investment needed to maintain the defined benefit pension plan has grown to unsustainable levels." Unite the Union are accusing Nissan of demonstrating "disdain and disregard" for workers

Hundreds protest pension changes at Nissan's Sunderland plant

It would mean the full rate of the old age pension would rise to £228.37 - an increase of £5.79.

2.6% rise in old age pensions proposed in Guernsey

Labour criticised the Government’s announcement of an end to the benefits freeze as ‘cynically-timed’.

Conservatives pledge to scrap benefits freeze in 2020

Women affected by the controversial changes have lost a landmark High Court fight.

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