Fair Pensions For All

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

Gender pensions gap

How we’re challenging the gender pensions gap

Our 2022 report highlights the lower incomes throughout a woman’s working life will invariably impact their pension savings, creating
an obvious pension gap.

Discover our gender gap report

Campaigning for the underpensioned

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

See our latest report

Pandemic and pensions

The pandemic and pensions inequality

300,000 more women have missed out on a workplace pension due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read our Pandemic and pensions report

Our award-winning campaigns

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The Underpensioned Index 2022

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

Over 8.6 million people from ‘underpensioned’ groups are now missing out on workplace pension savings.
Pension statistics

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, NOW: Pensions' 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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How we’re challenging the gender pensions gap

Our 2022 report highlights the lower incomes throughout a woman’s working life will invariably impact their pension savings, creating an obvious pension gap.

Three years on, women need to work 18 years extra in full-time employment to save the same amount into their pension as working men. Let’s close the gender pensions gap together.

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The cost of living crisis and paying into your pension

Prices are rocketing. Inflation has hit 10% and we’re all feeling the squeeze. Right now, saving for your future self may feel like leaving your current self short of money. Money you nee...
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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.
Samantha Gould

Why we need to support single parents in pension saving

This single parent’s day I was privileged to attend an event in the House of Lords, alongside the amazing Gingerbread, for an APPG event in celebration of single parents and their contrib...

In the press

Women less likely to consider impact of working fewer hours

Just one third (34%) of women consider the impact of reducing their working hours on pension contributions compared to 64% of men, Phoenix Insight has found.

More than 8.6mm missing out on workplace pension savings

More than 8.6 million people from underpensioned groups are missing out on workplace pension savings according to a report by NOW: Pensions.

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
NOW: Pensions

How millions of people in the UK save for their pension

Since it was introduced exactly ten years ago, auto-enrolment has transformed how millions of people in the UK save for their pension. Yet for far too many in our society, a comfortable retirement remains out of reach, usually through no fault of their own.
Joanne Seagers
Chair of Trustees,
NOW: Pensions

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 companies from a wide range of 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.

Discover more about us