Informed choices for working and saving


Building further on the aims set out in the Green Paper and the “Action Plan” for encouraging individuals to save for their retirement, the Government published its latest pensions paper on 3 February 2004. The main focus of the Government’s paper is encouraging pension savings by “empowering individuals to make real and informed choices”. The Government’s intention of raising pensions awareness and increasing the availability of pensions education is not a new concept as such, as these themes ran through both the Green Paper and the Action Plan. The Government’s new paper does, however, flesh out some of these ideas.

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