“Most people would think that is not what National Insurance is for.”
The new single-tier state pension introduced this week will be the centrepiece of the Coalition’s pension reform, accompanied by the new auto-enrolment scheme that automatically saves a sum from low-paid workers’ wages into a retirement fund.
Mr Webb said that those two reforms will ensure that people on low and average wages will be able to maintain their standard of living in retirement. But high earners will need to save more or work for longer to avoid a sharp fall in their incomes after they stop work.
“If you are on a modest wage, a £7,000 state pension and an auto-enrolment pension gets you not far short of your current income. It’s not a cliff edge. But if you are on above average earnings and you want to maintain your living standards, you need to do more.”
He added: “In terms of saving more, most people probably know that they are not putting much by.”
Mr Webb said that ministers will encourage more employers to offer their staff “automatic escalation” deals that earmark future pay rises for pension contributions. “No one wants to put in extra cash now, but people are willing to say, next time I have a pay rise, I commit now that part of it will go into the pension,” he said. Evidence from the US and other countries suggests that such schemes “work pretty well,” he said.
The new flat-rate pension will mean that many higher earners will receive a lower state pension than they would have done under the current rules.
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