Pressure is mounting on the Government to reveal future pension plans before the General Election on May 5th, as opposition parties claim that important new policies are being hidden from the public.
In a slip, during a newspaper interview, the Leader of the Commons, Mr Peter Hain MP, said that major pension legislation would be introduced early in the next term if Labour were re-elected.
The Department of Work and Pensions have said that they will not pre-empt the Turner report, due out later this year, but the interim report, published last October, said that there were four options for pensions in the future, raising taxes, the public saving more, people working longer or pensioner poverty.
The Conservatives have suggested that the Government have a 'secret agenda' to raise taxes to pay for pension reforms after the election.
Our view
There are even rumours of Labour introducing means testing for State Pensions. We have to say the only way forward is to have compulsory pensions paments for all.