Fair Pensions For All

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.

We do this by highlighting pension inequalities and campaigning for change.

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A young girl stands with her arms crossed

Gender pensions gap

We’ve been raising awareness of the gender pensions gap since 2017.

Our 2024 Gender Pensions Gap Report looks at the causes and consequences of pensions savings inequalities between men and women when they retire.

Read our 2024 gap report

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Mother and daughter do colouring in

Campaigning for the underpensioned

Our report with the Pension Policy Institute reveals that more than 8.6 million people from underpensioned groups are now missing out on workplace pension savings.

Read our underpensioned report

Our award-winning campaigns

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Tackling the gender pensions gap

On average, women will need to work an extra 19 years to retire with the same levels of pensions savings as a man.

Our 2024 gender pensions gap report looks at the causes and consequences of the gender pensions gap and what we can do to tackle them.
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The Underpensioned Index 2022

Our report with the Pension Policy Institute reveals that the pension wealth gap has worsened since our last report in 2020.

More than 8.6 million people from underpensioned groups are now missing out on workplace pension savings.
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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, our pandemic and pensions report 2021 looks at the impact COVID-19 has had on the most financially at-risk groups in our society.

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Latest news

Choose your savings style and we’ll tell you your favourite 90s toy

Can understanding how you save help you grow your pensions savings? We’ve been inspired by the recent Pension Attention campaign to take a trip down memory lane and find out if your pensi...

Pay your pension some attention in three easy steps!

When does life truly ‘begin’? Some say it’s 40, some say it’s when the kids leave home. Others say it’s only after a cup of coffee in the morning… Yet for some people working a 9-5*, life...
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How the FSCS closed our gender pay gap in three years

For the first time, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme’s gender pay gap is now 1.26% in favour of women – here’s how we did it.

In the press

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Majority of young savers supportive of plans to lower AE age

The majority (89%) of young adults want pensions to be made a bigger part of the national curriculum, while 86 per cent support reducing the age of automatic enrolment to 18, research from now:pensions has revealed.
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Single mothers missing £852 million in pension contributions

Working single mothers have missed out on an estimated £852 million in pensions savings because they are not covered by the auto-enrolment scheme introduced in 2012.

How to manage your pension during the cost of living crisis

There’s no sugar-coating it: we’re all feeling the financial sting of the cost-of-living crisis. And this time, there are no quick-fix hacks that are going to ease our money anxiety – with over 45% of UK adults struggling to pay their bills.

The underpensioned challenge is long-term by nature

The underpensioned challenge is long-term by nature, and we need to find practical solutions which will help those who need it most. In the face of economic uncertainty and a global cost of living crisis, it would be easy to say that we have other priorities but we are urging the government and policymakers to close these savings gaps and create a fairer pension system.
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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Trusted by millions of members, tens of thousands of employers and thousands of payroll bureaus

now:pensions is an award-winning UK workplace pension provider. We look after the pension savings of millions of members on behalf of tens of thousands of workplaces from lots of different industries.

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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