any taxpayer earning over £150 , 000 will no longer experience higher - price unemployment compensation , which is considered a substantial incentive to save for wealthy workers . from april 2011 , anyone who consumes £200 , 000 a year , for example , and pays the characteristic extent of 6 ' cent of their budget into their national pension account will win out on £200 a month or £2 , 400 a season . alistair lister , once he announced the move in the budget , insisted that just 1 . 5 per million of taxpayers - the equivalent of about 450 , 000 jobs - would be hit , but experts arguing that it would substantially damage the already beleaguered retirement industry , and inspire many savers to consider hard about living in a pension .
Alistair Darling is chancellor of UK.