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Discusses pension policy in Great Britain as of spring 2001. Details of 'stakeholder pensions' and how they compare to personal pensions; Groups being targeted for the stakeholder pensions; Effect of chancellor of the exchequer Gordon Brown's decision to increase the means-treated Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) for poor pensioners; Outlook for compulsory stakeholder pensions.

Presents information on the reforms proposed by Great Britain's social-security secretary, Alistair Darling to help poor pensioners. State of the pension industry in Great Britain; How the savings policies are seen as incoherent; Darling's reforms set to fix the problems with the system; Complexity of pensions; Rise in means-tested help; The state pensions available to all; Graph of the ratio of workers to retired people.