Early this year, when several members of the government's commission on Social Security recommended that pensions should be privatised, Mr Bauer proclaimed his opposition.

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Ministers are promising a draft Pensions Bill once a commission on the issue reports.

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Sources: the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and a study of state worker pensions done in 2009 by two academics, Joshua Rauh and Rovert Novy-Marx.

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It matters little who leaked a letter last week from the chancellor to Lord Turner, the head of the Pensions Commission that published its long-awaited findings on Wednesday.

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The Energy Secretary Chris Huhne is before the Environmental Audit Committee, talking about Carbon Budgets, and Work and Pensions Minister Maria Miller will be giving evident to the Work and Pensions Committee on the new Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission - the replacement for the now defunct Child Support Agency.

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If the British do not play ball on Eurobonds, hints the commission, other countries will not be helpful over pensions.

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The FSA has said its motivation for introducing the changes is to stop policies - such as private pensions and investments - being mis-sold by sales staff on commission.

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Britain's Pensions Commission has used a net replacement rate of 80% for workers on average incomes as a rough guide to whether they will have enough to live on in retirement.

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