Election 2024


4 July

2024 General Election

Our pension priorities for a new government.

The PLSA has collated a series of blogs and resources to inform members and set our pensions priorities for the new Government. 

Election Blog

The Local Government Pension Scheme is a unique player in the UK pensions market. With assets totalling more than £425 billion, the LGPS is the largest DB pension scheme in the UK and one of the biggest in the world. Not only is it un... Read more
Strong growth is the foundation of a thriving economy and society and there are a variety of policy measures that governments can adopt to secure higher growth. While fiscal and monetary policies are the preeminent mechanisms for driv... Read more
Despite a shift in occupational pension provision from DB to DC schemes in recent years, DB schemes remain of vital importance to millions of savers in providing a retirement income and to the wider economy through investments in the ... Read more
Thanks to automatic enrolment (AE), 19.4 million people who had not previously saved into a pension scheme are now setting money aside for their retirement. While AE has been successful in getting millions more saving for retirement, ... Read more
Until 2015, accessing your pension meant – for most people – converting a pot of money into a guaranteed income for life. But since the pension freedoms were introduced, over 55s have had a much wider choice over what to do with their... Read more

Election Resources


Election webinars