Blogs by Michael Johnson

29 March 2013 - Economy

Just when you thought it could not get any worse... it has.    In 2011, the OBR started to forecast the cashflow shortfall between public service pensions’ contributions and pensions in payment. Six years ago this was an irrelevant £200 million, climbing to £8 billion last year. It has to ...

20 November 2012 - Economy

With speculation in today's FT that the government is considering changes to pension tax relief for higher earners, Michael Johnson - author of CPS publications 'Pensions: Bring back the 10p rebate' and 'Put the Saver First' - writes on why he believes savings incentives need to change. The Treasury spends a vast ...

01 October 2012 - Economy

Michael Johnson is a CPS Research Fellow and pensions expert. He recently authored the CPS publication "Put the Saver First" and was Secretary to the Conservative Party's Economic Competitiveness Policy Group.As auto-enrolment (AE) kicks off, in a spirit of muted enthusiasm, attention should be turned to one of the AE-eligible schemes: ...

04 November 2011 - Economy

Centre for Policy Studies Research Fellow and pensions expert Michael Johnson blogs for Conservative Home on the deal offered by the government to public sector unions, in what Tim Montgomerie has called one of the most important blogs on ConHome for some time. Yesterday’s concessions by the Coalition, in respect of ...