The web discussion on the Pensions Green Paper is now closed. You can see the responses on UKOnline's website.

The consultation period for the Pensions Green Paper, published 17 December, is also now over. You can:

• read the reports on the Future of Work seminars, held at Templeton College, Oxford.
  
• read a summary of the Green Paper
  
• read the whole Green Paper in Adobe Acrobat
  
• read the press release on the Department for Work and Pensions website.

More information about the web forum is still available below.

We want to hear what you think

The Department for Work and Pensions is holding a web discussion for two weeks from 10 to 23 March on the issues raised in its Green Paper on the reform of pensions. The topics we'd like your opinion on are:

• Expanded opportunities for older workers
  
  
• Protection for members of company pension schemes
  
  
• Building trust in the financial services industry
  
  
• Giving individuals the information they need to save for retirement
  

Why get involved?
Your opinion matters.

The proposals in the Green Paper aim to encourage and help people to retire on an income that meets their expectations, as we live longer and healthier lives.

The government needs to hear about the experiences and opinion of the public to help to develop its pension reform proposals. The Department for Work and Pensions has set up this web forum to collect your views.

After the forum is finished, the independent moderators will prepare for the Department for Work and Pensions a summary of the comments that were published. The Department will take those comments into account when deciding the future direction of pensions law and policy, along with the other submissions that were collected during the Green Paper consultation period.

To ensure the Government has a wide and diverse range of views to consider in its pensions reform plans, please encourage colleagues, friends and associates with an interest in pensions to take part in the forum as well.

Email them the web address of this page: www.dwp.gov.uk/greenpaper

Where is it?
We're holding the forum on UK Online's website in the area called CitizenSpace.

When is it?
10 March to 23 March 2003.

How do I get involved?
All you need to do is register by going to the forum pages.

What is a forum?
A forum is a website that allows people to have a discussion with other people. To add your opinion, go to the forum web page, find the area of the discussion that interests you, and add your comments.

All comments added to this forum are "pre-moderated". This means there will be a delay between when you post a message and when it appears on the forum.

Moderators will be checking messages regularly throughout the day, but if you post a message after 11pm at night then it will not appear until 7am the next morning.

To make sure the forum remains a safe, fair and welcoming place, we have set out some rules such as only making comments which relate to the topic, respecting other users and not using insulting, threatening, or provoking language.

Find out more about the rules for using the forum facility on the ukonline website.

More about the Green Paper
We are holding this forum as a part of the consultation on the pensions Green Paper - Simplicity, security and choice, working and saving for retirement.

The Green Paper was released in December 2002. It contains options for reform, proposals for action and requests for views on particular issues relating to pensions.

It was published by The Department for Work and Pensions to put forward proposals which people could express views on. Proposals cover future pensions policy and legislation, inviting comment and ideas from interested parties and from the public at large.

The consultation process runs until 28 March 2003. Other parts of the consultation process aim to take views from academics, the pensions industry, pensioner representative organisations, employers' and employees' representative organisations and pensions practitioners.

You can download documents marked with a using Adobe Acrobat Reader, available free of charge.

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