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United Kingdom | Publication | November 2022
- The Government intends to publish the review of the state pension age (SPA), announced by the DWP in December 2021, in “early 2023”. SPA is due to rise to age 68 for those born after April 5, 1978, under current Government plans.
- Retention of the “triple lock” for state pensions, meaning that they will be uprated by inflation from April 2023, by an amount of some £870 per annum. The triple lock had been disapplied for the 2022/23 tax year due to the impact of Covid on average earnings growth.
- HMT published its response to the review of Solvency II, which confirms plans to cut the risk margin requirements for long-term insurance, as proposed. In addition, more flexible asset eligibility rules will be introduced into the matching adjustment, to include assets with “highly predictable”, rather than fixed, cashflows.
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