George Osborne gave middle England plenty to smile about in yesterday’s Budget by cutting business rates, helping savers and taking 600,000 people out of higher rate tax. Today’s Money blog looks at the day after the night before while, in other financial news, Fidelity International has warned that the retirement income gap is not just a problem for older generations of women.
Responding to this week’s suggested solutions by the Work and Pensions Select Committee to the on-going debate around State Pension changes and its impact on women, Maike Currie, investment director for personal investing at Fidelity International, said: ‘The ongoing debate around whether state pension age changes were effectively communicated to women has drawn attention back to the retirement gap that exists between the sexes. This is not an issue of the past that we can ignore as an “older person’s problem”. The very same issues that lie behind paltry saving levels when it comes to older women still exist today. There
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