On 6 April 2002 the State Second Pension was introduced to reform the State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme SERPS . It offers around 18 million people the prospect of building up a bigger additional state pension than they would have got from SERPS. See Also Moneyextra.coms Pension Centre ©Moneyextra.com Moneyextra.com recommends you take independent financial advice before acting on any article 2009-02-17 00:00:00 © Moneyextra.com