JournalLive - Tag - pensions

Call for North East workers to join workplace pensions

JournalLive — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:00:00 GMT

NORTH East workers were yesterday warned their standards of living could “fall off a cliff” if they opt out of a Government programme to enrol them on to workplace pensions.

Strikes could push North East back into recession

JournalLive — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:29:00 GMT

A ROW broke out last night after a senior minister said striking public sector workers risked plunging the North East back into recession.

Has 'role model' Wayne Rooney scored an own goal?

JournalLive — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:00:00 GMT

WHO would you choose as your child’s role model? It’s tricky. I suppose Bill Gates could be a good one.

Unions ready to fight over threat to final salary pensions

JournalLive — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:23:00 GMT

NHS staff, teachers and police were yesterday told their pensions were “not tenable” in the long term.

Pensions expert Lord Turner questions policy

JournalLive — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:30:00 GMT

THE Government has been told that research from the North East proving people can work productively when they pass 65 should be used to block any increase in immigration to the United Kingdom.

One in four pensioners are living in poverty

JournalLive — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:20:00 GMT

A RISE in the state pension will not be enough to ward off pensioner poverty, a campaign group warned at a protest in Newcastle yesterday.