The speech has outlined plans to simplify both the state pension and consumer rights.
And thus the wealth value of that state pension is considerably higher than that UK value.
While NITC claims to be a private entity, its shareholders are clearly state pension funds.
Once the chronic unemployed reach retirement age, they switch from Hartz IV to a state pension.
The government says the timetable for raising the state pension age to 67 is too slow.
The advice given to Mr Swinney questions whether a separate Scotland could afford the state pension.
The pension reforms are intended to keep state pension contributions below 20% of wages until 2020.
Bloated state pension systems need to be re-worked and state governments need to balance budgets.
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The government's own website has up-to-date-information about the state pension and other benefits.
Various workers are allowed to retire with a full state pension at age 45.
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The operator of an LBO fund will find easy marks among managers of state pension funds.
And we're going to start with the state pension, and more importantly the 'basic' state pension.
It had also formed the Office of Tax Simplification, and was reforming the state pension.
An elderly pensioner, Raisa survives on a meagre state pension and by growing her own vegetables.
The changes won't apply to people already receiving state pension when the new arrangements are introduced.
In the cities, workers are obliged to supplement the state pension with contributions to individual accounts.
Mr Weir said he believes that "only 13%" of women receive the full state pension.
The state pension age will be reviewed every five years, pensions minister Steve Webb has said.
To receive the payment before they reach state pension age, the men must file a claim.
The French government unveiled a series of measures aimed at reducing the state pension-fund shortfall.
The 20-page report said that state pension payments were made from general taxation and were therefore unfunded.
The state pension service, for example, is being overhauled by a former teacher who is hopelessly inadequate.
People receiving unemployment or incapacity benefit can have their state pension credited as though they are working.
However, Mr Turner did acknowledge that the second state pension was "muddled and for many people impenetrable".
And the basic state pension will be re-linked in 2012 to earnings, which increase faster than prices.
As it is, the government seems hesitant even to privatise the earnings-related element of the state pension.
As a result, these people's NI bill would rise, but their state pension would also be greater.
The state pension is expected to continue rising, as now, in line with earnings, prices, or 2.5%, whichever is higher.
It will involve merging the state second pension with the basic state pension, to create one flat-rate payment.
New York has millions of dollars in state pension funds invested in the four energy companies under investigation.
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