Three things we learned this week

Flat rate state pension will slash pensioner poverty says think tank Introducing a flat-rate state pension of around £140 per week will cut the number of pensioners living below the poverty line, the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) said. The plans to reform the state pension, announced earlier this year, could cut pensioners living in poverty from 16% of all pensioners, as it was in 2009, to 10% by 2025, the PPI said. In its latest report, The implications of Government policy for future levels of pensioner poverty, the think tank said pensioner poverty has been falling since 1989, w...