Tag Archives: Pensions

The economy could undermine the Government’s new auto-enrolment pensions policy, forcing policy makers to look at radical new ideas such as low cost public loans, additional behavioural “nudges” and even compulsion, according to a new report from leading

The Social Market Foundation's response to the 2012 Budget.

George Osborne should use the Budget to bring forward the unidentified £15bn of austerity measures that have to be made in the next parliament, and spend the extra £50bn this would save over four years to stimulate the economy and cut unemployment through

Leader of the Opposition Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP has today delivered a speech to the Social Market Foundation to launch the SMF's latest publications, Markets in a State.

A 'no-lose lottery' and a savings smartcard to make saving a 'crime of opportunity' are amongst the recommendations contained in a new report by published today by the Social Market Foundation think tank.

Voracious competition over headline prices in financial services comes at the expense of product quality, undermining consumer trust and compounding inertia, a new report published today (Wednesday 13 July) by the think tank the Social Market Foundation.

The Government has been told that much needed Dilnot proposals on funding long term care and support can only be paid for by raising taxes or cutting spending in the next Comprehensive Spending Review in 2013.

To pass the tests of fairness, sustainability and adequacy of retirement provision, the SMF argues that Lord Hutton's review of public sector pensions should promote a system that shifts the most pension risk onto the highest earning public sector employees.

The Social Market Foundation, a leading UK think-tank, has today provided a first response to the Government's call for ideas to fix the debt crisis in a new report, Axing and Taxing: How to cut the deficit, which concludes that the budget deficit cannot be fixed without substantial tax rises, cuts to the NHS budget and an end to universal benefits.