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    Are parental allowances contributing to the death of the Saturday job?

    Should parents stop giving children an allowance?

  • NewsAOL

    A £500 profit from George Osborne's pension loophole

    Probably unintentionally, George Osborne has gifted older savers a small risk-free £500 pension loophole. It's buried in the Budget pensions rules where Osborne details plans to take small pension pots as cash. The nub of it concerns tax

  • EntertainmentAOL

    Pension changes need to benefit all, not just the rich

    The simplification of pensions in 2006 was supposed to be a new dawn for a complex area of legislation but alas it wasn't to be, in fact it created quite the opposite effect adding pages of new rules and ever more mind-numbing dos and

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  • BusinessAOL

    A £1 million pension isn't as much as you'd think

    How much tinkering can one area of pensions stand? Successive governments change the pensions rules as often as they make dodgy expenses claims and one part of pensions has suffered the most. The lifetime allowance has dropped from a rather

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    Would a £40,000 ISA allowance make pensions redundant?

    Pension expert Michael Johnson has published another controversial report on how to solve the UK's retirement crisis, but could pensions survive if we merged them with individual savings accounts (ISAs). In a paper for the Centre for Policy

  • HealthAOL

    Bid to force benefits trial lost

    The coalition has avoided fresh embarrassment over its plans for a new disability allowance after making concessions. Paralympian Baroness Grey-Thompson's bid to force ministers to hold trials before introducing the controversial benefit was