31.   Wage ceilings needed to be introduced and the heavily indebted state pension scheme overhauled.

32.   An increase in state pensions, due in November, was frozen.

33.   In a policy blueprint, Retirement with Dignity, the party also argued that more generous provision in state pensions was politically and financially feasible.

34.   It would also guarantee basic state pension for all permanent UK residents, whether or not their spouse had made sufficient contributions.

35.   The legislation would not affect the flat-rate State pension.

36.   How will the state pension system cope with the increasing number of pensioners?

37.   Well what c what what a what does the language of self help mean to a seventy year old living on a state pension in a council house?

38.   Also on the agenda are moves to increase the level of national savings, probably by raising contributions to the state pension scheme.

39.   Another year of revolving doors at Putnam and the state pension fund will not be the only client hitting the exits, says Jeff McConnell, a Morningstar analyst.

40.   Andrew Entwistle, one of the lawyers representing one of the creditors, the Florida state pension fund, praised the decision.