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Stakeholder pensions: Blue skies ahead

Are you ready to offer your staff a pension? <STRONG>Mary Evans </STRONG>looks to the future near and far as the new stakeholder pension scheme comes in

Are you ready to offer your staff a pension? Mary Evans looks to the future near and far as the new stakeholder pension scheme comes in

Next month sees a revolution in the way thousands of childcare workers will be able to plan and save for their retirement, with the launch of the Government's stakeholder pensions scheme.

Successive governments have worried that while the state pension scheme would be insufficient to provide adequate incomes for an increasingly long-lived population, too few people were attempting to provide for themselves. The stakeholder scheme, to be introduced on 6 April, aims to plug the savings gap between occupational and state pensions for up to five million low-to-middle income earners.

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