Minding the Gap

Work and Pensions Minister Alistair Darling

The Government is urging people to save more saying you cannot rely on the state. However a top pensions expert for a major pension provider tells us today that pensions are NOT for everybody.

He says a million people in the workforce will end up worse off if they take out personal pensions. In the wake of wave after wave of mis-selling scandals, financial services are already in a mess. Is there more to come?

Our reporter Andrew Bomford looks at the pensions time bomb and the Work and Pensions Minister Alistair Darling gives us his response.

Also on the programme: Once again in Washington they are asking the famous question first directed at President Nixon over the Watergate affair: what did the President know, and when did he know it?

The World This Weekend assesses if it was complacency or carelessness in the White House of President Bush which missed the warnings of September 11th.

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