Pensions
Pensions are becoming ever more a part of employers’ benefits packages, now that pensions pensions auto-enrolment is being rolled out.
Employers must comply with the auto-enrolment requirements from their “staging date”, depending on their size.
France faces tough battle over pension reform
Paris has been crippled by public transport strikes today in response to moves by the French government to implement pension reform.
Consultation into NHS pensions flexibility launched
A new consultation into NHS pension changes designed to enable senior clinicians to work additional shifts without facing prohibitive tax...
Who is Thérèse Coffey, Amber Rudd‘s replacement at DWP?
Thérèse Coffey has been appointed as the new secretary of state for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), following Amber Rudd's resignation.
Pressure to cut pension inequality at top firms bears fruit
Shareholder pressure has led 30 FTSE 100 companies to cut their pension payments for executives over the past year.
Legal challenge in pipeline over teachers and doctors’ pensions
Teachers and doctors who have been moved on to less beneficial pension schemes have grounds for a legal challenge to ensure they don't lose out
Four in 10 police chiefs consider leaving because of pension tax bills
Four in 10 police chiefs are considering leaving the service to avoid falling foul of the same tax rules that...
Increase state pension age to 75 to ‘improve health and wellbeing’
Raising the state pension age to 75 will improve the health and wellbeing of older people, a think tank has controversially proposed.
Pensions: NHS doctors to set accrual level to tackle tax crisis
Senior doctors and surgeons will be able to set the level of pension accrual each year to allow them to...
Government admits defeat in police pensions legal battle
The government has conceded defeat over its attempt to alter police pensions, acknowledging that moving police officers to new police pension schemes, based on their age, is discriminatory.
Never mind the gender pay gap: here’s the gender pensions gap
There have been exhaustive discussions on the gender pay gap, but what about the huge chasm between women’s pension wealth...
Consultation launched to remedy NHS pension tax crisis
Senior NHS employees are to be consulted over whether NHS pensions should be altered to allow GPs and clinicians to take on extra work without having to pay higher tax bills.
Pensions Regulator hunts ‘shape-shifting’ businesses
An unspecified number of businesses have attempted to evade their pension duties to employees by altering their identities, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has found.
Landmark pensions ruling opens doors for other public sector claims
A woman has won the right to access her late partner’s military pension in a landmark Court of Appeal ruling....
Boris Johnson pledges to ‘fix’ pension tax allowance rules
Tory leadership front runner Boris Johnson has vowed to “fix” the pension rules that have led to NHS consultants finding...
Landmark public sector pension ruling confirmed
A landmark ruling that pension reforms discriminated against younger workers has been confirmed - with huge ramifications for the public sector
