State Pension Support in UK Law
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Institutional Mismatch, Party Reputation, and Industry Interests: Understanding the Politics of Private-Heavy Pension Systems
Private-heavy welfare systems, in which low or moderate state benefits are topped up by private welfare arrangements, are expected to undermine political support for the extension of social rights ...... ... Abstract Private-heavy welfare systems, in which low or moderate state benefits are topped up by private welfare arrangements, are expected to ndermine political support for the extension of social rights and perpetuate benefit fragmentation ... ...
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Trade unions and the pension crisis: defending member interests in a neoliberal world
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to draw upon empirical research in order to demonstrate the ways in which trade unions have responded to the so‐called current UK pension crisis. Design/metho...... ... that are committed toneoliberal reforms to the British welfare state.Research limitations/implications – The scope of the paper is large and ... for, and work towards, ideologicalends, principally the support of neoliberalism, which represents contemporarycapitalism’s ruling ... ...
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Building a case for evidence: research at the International Records Management Trust, Rights and Records Institute
The availability of documentary evidence strengthens civil society by helping to protect legal rights and prevent human rights violations. Legal redress, voting rights, land registration and pensio...... ... , votingrights, land registration and pension claims all depend upon the availability ... loss of control of records undermines the state’s abilityto protect the people. Furthermore, in ... governments to manage public records in support of citizen’s rights andto make public sector ... ...
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Dementia in the workplace: a review
Purpose: – Recent changes affecting state pension age, and earlier diagnosis, will result in more people with dementia in employment. The purpose of this paper is to establish the nature of support...... ... AbstractPurpose –Recent changes affecting state pension age, and earlier diagnosis, will result ... this paper is to establish the nature of support that would enable/enables people with dementia or ... ...
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Pension Politics: A Conspicuous Absence
... ... ’s hint that he might suspend the so-called ‘triple lock’ on state pensions is the only recent exception. If pensions were genuinely an ... -compulsory system of ‘automatic enrolment’ with cross-party support. This system established minimum employer contributions for the rst ... ...
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The portability of social rights of the United Kingdom with the European Union: Facts, issues, and prospects
The portability of social benefits – such as the state pension, child allowances and unemployment benefits – for international migrants is regulated by social security agreements concluded between ...... ... of social benefits – such as the state pension, child allowances and unemployment ... benefits: State Pension Credit, Income Support, Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, ... ...
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Reform of the Death Benefit Provisions in Lesotho's Public Sector Pension Fund: Lessons from South Africa and Swaziland
... ... dependants to whom the deceased owed a legal duty of financial support. 3 Some commentators have described legal dependants as ‘those ... of pension members from being left impoverished, and to minimise state obligations to support surviving dependants. 18 This purpose has been ... ...
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Development of capital pension funds in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria and readiness to implement PEPP
Unfavourable demographic trends are exerting more pressure on public pension systems in all European countries, and the need for alternative sources of pension provision is increasing. Personal pen...... ... schemes in the 1990s, abandoning the pensionmodel consisting of one state pension pillar. However, while Bulgaria has adopted the three-pillarmodel ... If states do not provide the same support forthe new pension product, in the form of tax breaks, matching ... ...
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Development of capital pension funds in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria and readiness to implement PEPP
Unfavourable demographic trends are exerting more pressure on public pension systems in all European countries, and the need for alternative sources of pension provision is increasing. Personal pen...... ... schemes in the 1990s, abandoning the pensionmodel consisting of one state pension pillar. However, while Bulgaria has adopted the three-pillarmodel ... If states do not provide the same support forthe new pension product, in the form of tax breaks, matching ... ...
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“Thatcher’s children”, pensions and retirement ‐ Some survey evidence
Despite major changes in the UK pensions scene, including policy initiatives by successive governments, very little is known about people’s attitudes towards many pensions related issues. Reports t...... ... The findings relateboth to knowledge of pension and retirement details, and the students' own ... The need for a role for the State was acknowledged,whilst occupational pensions ... The question of the financial support by, and for, theelderly will become increasingly ... ...
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