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This Election Briefing Note aims to describe the key differences between the three main UK political parties on policies that might affect the ways in which individuals save and provide for the future, including the ways in which resources might be provided for retirement. Our main focus will be on policies that might affect future pensioners; IFS Election Briefing Note no. 11 explains how the different tax and benefit reform packages proposed by the different parties will affect people in the population in the short term, including current pensioners. We will also focus on areas in which the different parties have different policies.
Authors

Deputy Director
Carl, a Deputy Director, is an editor of the IFS Green Budget, an expert on the UK pension system and sits on the Social Security Advisory Committee.

Research Associate University of Bologna
Matthew is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna focusing on consumption and savings choices and how policy affects them.

Report details
- DOI
- 10.1920/re.ifs.2024.0843
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
C, Emmerson and G, Tetlow and M, Wakefield. (2005). Pension and saving policy. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/pension-and-saving-policy (accessed: 15 July 2025).
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