Pension freedoms have presented members with “fiendishly complicated” choices and pension providers are being put off providing more guidance because of the blurred boundary between guidance and advice, a hearing of the Work and Pensions Committee has heard.

On the go: The Association of Consulting Actuaries has warned HM Revenue & Customs against causing accidental damage to the pensions advice market.

Martin Clarke, the government actuary, has proposed changing the cost-control mechanism used in the reformed public service pension schemes in a bid to tackle the “perverse outcome” of the 2016 valuation.

Employers representing 95 per cent of the Universities Superannuation Scheme membership have backed measures proposed by Universities UK, including enhanced employer covenant provision, in a bid to end the impasse over the scheme’s 2020 valuation.

Work and Pensions Committee chair Stephen Timms has written to the City of London Police asking why no urgent action has been taken against fraudsters masquerading as representatives of Dalriada.

On the go: The Pensions Ombudsman has upheld a complaint against accounting company Berics over £678 in unpaid auto-enrolment contributions, reporting the employer to the Pensions Regulator.

The Public Accounts Committee has issued a scathing report highlighting the Treasury’s failure to predict the numerous problems stemming from 2011-15 public sector reforms, warning its mistakes will take “generations” to resolve.

On the go: The British Medical Association has used a Public Accounts Committee report criticising the Treasury’s implementation of public sector pension reforms to call for further changes to the NHS Pension Scheme in order to tackle the medical staffing crisis.

Podcast: LCP partner Francesca Bailey and Pensions Management Institute president Lesley Alexander discuss pension scams, dashboards and corporate activity.

This week — new rules for trustees to report on climate change investment risks, a High Court ruling on exit credits, leaked findings from PHSO give a boost to the Waspi campaign, and the threat of a strike about a pensions freeze looms over General Electric