State pension reform call

A PENSIONS group today called on the government to reform the state pension to lift two million people out of means testing.

By The Newsroom

Published 29th Mar 2010, 11:06 BST

Updated 29th Mar 2010, 12:22 BST

The National Association of Pension Funds called for the basic state pension and the state second pension to be combined into a new Foundation Pension.

It said this would be worth 8,000 a year.