All retirement age articles
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NewsFBU urges employment tribunal to protect member benefits
The Fire Brigades Union has said it will encourage and assist its members in taking claims before an employment tribunal to protect their pension benefits, while it continues to negotiate with the Home Office for a permanent solution.
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News‘Disingenuous’ pension proposals will not fix NHS staffing crisis
The government’s proposed pension rules tweaks around “retire and return” for some NHS Pension Scheme members, in a bid to tackle the mounting staff retention crisis, have been criticised by commentators who argue that the changes do not go far enough.
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PodcastsPodcast: Trustees struggling to guide members on inflation benefits
Podcast: A report from XPS Pensions suggests that members could reap £10,000 additional benefits by delaying retirement because of the way increases and inflation are calculated, but trustees are struggling to help them because of the “red tape” around advice. LCP partner Laura Amin is joined by Hymans Robertson partner Patrick Bloomfield to discuss benefits’ inflation calculation and advice, concerns about defined benefit funding, and the women’s state pension age investigation.
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NewsPPI: More data needed on ethnic groups’ retirement outcomes
On the go: While it is known that people from Pakistani, Bangladeshi, black, and other minority ethnic groups suffer poorer retirement outcomes than the white majority of savers, the data collected does not allow us to properly examine why that is the case, according to the Pensions Policy Institute.
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NewsDelaying retirement by a day could leave members £10,000 better off
Delaying retirement by a day could leave members £10,000 better off in retirement due to the way members’ benefits are calculated based on short-term inflation rates, according to research from XPS Pensions Group.
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NewsGovt to change civil servants’ early pensions access
The government has proposed to change the rules around early access to pensions in the civil service, tracking 10 years behind state pension age, according to a new consultation over reforms to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme.
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NewsPublic sector retirees face higher exit payment scrutiny
Substantial exit payments resulting from pension strain arrangements in the public sector will likely see people nearing retirement having their cases referred to HM Treasury, under a proposed new regime.
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NewsNHS pension payments delayed as retirements surge 50%
More than a thousand NHS pensioners have seen their pension payments delayed as the NHS Business Services Authority, which administers NHS pensions, struggles to cope with a spike in retirements and resignations.
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NewsAviva faces £3.5mn Barber window pension error claim
Aviva’s application to strike out a £3.5mn professional negligence claim, allegedly due to an administrator missing the window to equalise men and women retirement ages in a scheme, has been dismissed by the High Court.
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NewsSmall pots member exchange trial scuppered by NMPA
A trial being developed by three master trusts to exchange small pots has ground to a halt before it even started, due to the new normal minimum pension age rules, and will only be able to advance if new legislation is introduced.
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NewsRailways scheme urges patience as it reviews early retirement
On the go: The Railways Pension Scheme is reviewing its early retirement factors and is advising members considering taking early retirement that they should wait until the review is completed before making their decision.
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NewsPLSA’s retirement living standards now cover 35mn members
On the go: Pension scheme communications from more than 100 organisations now provide up to 35mn members with access to the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s retirement living standards, the industry body has announced.
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NewsOmbudsman fines Cabinet Office and civil service scheme admin
The Pensions Ombudsman has partly upheld a complaint against the Cabinet Office and MyCSP, the administrator of the Civil Service Pension Scheme, after they failed to properly process a member’s request to cease payments to his “added years contract”.
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NewsBMA issues stinging rebuke of ‘misleading’ NHS pensions claims
The British Medical Association has rebuked NHS England and NHS Improvement for what it calls “misleading” information about “punitive pensions taxation” and its impact on staff retention.
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NewsPolice Scotland warned of staff exodus after pension changes
Police Scotland is reportedly facing a staff exodus after changes to pension lump sum rules led 1,800 staff to query the size of the figure they will receive under the new system, with 400 having already decided to leave the service.
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NewsPublic sector scheme members get retirement calculator
On the go: The Government Actuary’s Department has released an online tool designed to help public sector scheme members better understand their options for benefits and retirement.
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PodcastsPodcast: Universal charges could harm master trust competition
Podcast: The intent behind universal charges on default funds is sound, but the method — such as the introduction of flat fees — risks harming the master trust sector and restricting access to pensions, according to The People’s Pension’s director of policy Phil Brown. He his joined by his colleague, head of pensions policy Tim Gosling, to discuss charge structures, decumulation solutions, and baffling pensions jargon.
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NewsGovt confirms GMP revaluation rate after receiving only two responses
On the go: The Department for Work and Pensions will be lowering the guaranteed minimum pension fixed rate revaluation for early leavers by 0.25 percentage points, after its consultation into the matter attracted just two responses.
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NewsSurvey finds ‘overall lack of trust’ in the pensions industry
On the go: Last year saw a small rise in members’ trust in pensions, but almost a third (31.5 per cent) still have “no or very little trust” in the industry, according to a Trafalgar House survey.
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NewsAlmost half of workers cannot afford to save for retirement
On the go: Almost half (47 per cent) of individuals not yet in retirement say that spiralling costs have left them unable to save, according to a survey from the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association.