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Retirement Planner's round-up of the top pension stories this week.

Almost half a million people will retire over the next 30 years saddled with average mortgage debts topping £50,000, research suggests.

An MP has branded the Money Advice Service (MAS) as a 'playground bully' for its disruptive influence on the industry and the delivery of debt advice.

Debt is a structural feature of many European economies and for a lot of individuals it is simply not possible for them to manage without it, according to the latest research from Finaccord. As a result, European consumers are not rushing to pay off their...

The number of older people in debt has risen sharply over the past year, research from Age- UK reveals.

The average retired person has more than £8,000 of personal debt to repay - with the collective total for the country reaching £96bn, analysis has found.

The financial services industry will pay an extra £40m toward the Money Advice Service (MAS) after it agreed to take on responsibility for coordinating and providing debt advice.

Education can provide "armour" against financial mismanagement and misleading advertising, MPs said yesterday.

Collapsed private debt management firm DebtDr owes £600,000 to its clients, a BBC investigation has revealed.

MoneySavingExpert's Martin Lewis has written an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron urging him to push through compulsory financial education in schools.