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Our mission is to help everyone save for a more financially secure future.

This means achieving the best financial outcomes for our own members, while fighting for a fair pension system to enable all pension savers to enjoy the retirement they deserve.

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Gender pensions gap

The gender pensions gap doesn’t begin at retirement age. Nor does it start with the first wage packet. A lifetime of inequality means women, on average, will have to work an extra 19 years to retire with the same pensions savings as men. We’re campaigning to close the gap.

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Campaigning for the underpensioned

Our new report reveals how millions of financially-vulnerable people in the UK are facing significant pension inequality, leaving them with a growing pension savings gap. Find out how we’re working to help create a fairer UK pensions system.

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The pandemic and pensions inequality

300,000 more women have missed out on a workplace pension due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From carers to single parents, we explore the impact COVID-19 has had on the most financially at-risk groups in society.

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Debate Mate

We’re proud partners of Debate Mate, the mentoring organisation which runs after-school debate programmes across the UK, to help build communication skills, self-confidence and critical thinking in students.

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Everyone deserves the opportunity to build a secure future

For far too many in our society, a comfortable retirement
remains out of reach, usually through no fault of their own.
These groups are often locked out of the auto-enrolment
system, unable to earn enough to put money aside for
later and as a result, ͽnd themselves on the wrong side
of a growing pension savings gap.
Samantha Gould
Head of PR and Campaigns
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What we can do to fight for fair pensions for all

It’s hard to believe that by the time a young girl starts school at four, she will already be falling behind a boy of the same age when it comes to providing for her retirement. Yet this is the reality many girls face as they leave education and enter the world of work. Our research is an important step in identifying, defining, and addressing the problem and what we can do as a society to fight for fair pensions for all.
Joanne Seagers
Chair of Trustees
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The future of auto enrolment should be front and centre of next steps

Policymakers have made important decisions in recent years which are already making a substantial difference to the way workers and their employers are providing for retirement. Setting out the roadmap for the future of auto enrolment including tackling the difficult issue of adequacy in retirement – which affects women disproportionately given lower pension wealth- should be front and centre of next steps.
Lizzy Holliday
Director of Public Affairs and Policy
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Our mission is to help everyone save for a more financially secure future

We believe in a pension system that benefits everyone. By highlighting inequalities and campaigning for change, we’re helping people who save get the retirement and financial outcomes they deserve.

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