Getting help
Check your employment contract or intranet to find out which company pension plan you can join. The main plans are PensionSaver and the Harmsworth Pension Scheme.
Online retirement planning tools are provided by Fidelity, (PensionSaver plan provider) to help review your current retirement savings and create a detailed plan of how to achieve your retirement income needs.
If you're in PensionSaver, DMGT has teamed up with leading financial adviser, Hargreaves Lansdown, to help you buy your annuity. You'll get other annuity quotes, not just Fidelity's. Better still, this service is paid for entirely by the company. Just call DMGT Pensions on 0207 395 7272 for information on how you can use this service.
Keep up to date with DMGT's consumer site, This is Money, which has a wealth of information about pensions.
Directgov gives some useful information on pensions and retirement planning.
Get more information and guidance on pensions from The Pensions Advisory Service.
My local adviser and Unbiased are sites giving details of independent financial advisers in your area who may be able to help you.
If you have lost track of any old pension schemes the Pension Tracing Service can help you find them.
Request a forecast to get an idea of how much your State Pension will be.