Webb's latest policy move branded 'knee-jerk' UKIP reaction

The move, announced by Webb over the long weekend, means from 2016 the government will scrap claims on contributions made by a spouse under the married person's allowance. Therefore, after 2016, spouses living overseas will no longer be entitled to receive state pensions based on their partner's national insurance. Nigel Green, chief executive of the deVere Group, said: “The government clearly needs to shore-up the country’s finances but there must be another way that it can boost its coffers rather than withdrawing, generally, much-needed pensions from widows, whose spouses have, most l...