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14 Sep 2012
Savings to the taxpayer promised by the Government as the result of the final stage of its reforms to public sector pensions are "confusing", an expert has said.
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05 Jul 2012
A proposal to combine 34 London local authority pension schemes into one £25 billion 'super fund' will need "careful consideration" before any positive action can be taken, a pensions law expert has warned.
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23 Mar 2012
The Government has been given the go-ahead to take over the “excessive” pension costs of its former monopoly postal service Royal Mail, the European Commission has announced.
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20 Mar 2012
Public sector trade unions have lost their appeal against a change to the way that increases in their members' pensions are calculated.
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15 Feb 2012
The Government cannot force through changes to the Teachers' Pension Scheme as it has not proved that the current system is unsustainable, the UK's largest teaching union has said.
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15 Feb 2012
Prime Mister David Cameron is "very interested" in an automatic mechanism for raising the state pension age in line with increasing life expectancy, according to press reports.
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07 Feb 2012
The Universities Superannuation Fund (USS) is £3 billion short of meeting its current liabilities to pension scheme members, according to press reports.
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06 Feb 2012
Struggling local authority pension schemes should be consolidated into five 'super funds' to cut costs and make them more efficient, a group of council leaders and pension experts has said.
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13 Jan 2012
The current 'split' in the way the UK's largest unions have responded to the Government's offer on public sector pension reform "seems to hand the Government the high ground", an expert has said.
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05 Jan 2012
Whole scale reform of public sector pensions in the UK must take into account more factors than mere cost savings, a pensions law expert has said.
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