Illustration by Ben Jennings

The news that Royal Bank of Scotland is shifting £18m of annual national insurance contributions – the increase it will face when contracting-out kicks in on April 6 – to 27,000 defined benefit members may not faze pensions lawyers, given it is legal to do so.

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