feedback from the payroll profession as to which method you believe would be most suited to tackle the anomaly and how each proposed method would affect your pension administration processes.
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Court of Appeal dismisses state pension age challenge 16 September 2020
Julie Delve, 62 and Karen Glynn, 63, took to the Court of Appeal to contest the increase of the state pension age for women from 60 to 66. However, the appeal has been unanimously dismissed by the court, but associated campaign groups have vowed that they will take the case to the Supreme Court, and that their fight is not yet over. Roughly four million women who were born in the 1950s have been impacted by the change which has been taken by previous governments, in an attempt to secure “pension age equalisation”. Delve and Glynn stated that they have been unlawfully discriminated against by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) by the fact that they have been forced to wait for their state pensions. In dismissing the appeal, judges on the case found that governments had taken the appropriate stapes to notify any individuals affected by the change, and were allowed to focus on an issue of the “highest economic and social importance.”
In discussion of the High Court dismissing the first challenge, it was observed that it was “entitled to conclude on the evidence that the publicity campaign implemented by the DWP had been adequate and reasonable.”
Campaign group BackTo60 backed Delve and Glynn, and argued discrimination on the basis of both age and sex. Delve believed she would receive her state pension back in 2018 at the age of 60, but, following the changes, she will now not receive it until 2024.
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Recognised overseas pension schemes notification list 17 September 2020
The list of Recognised Overseas Pensions Schemes (ROPS) notifications has been updated.
The list is of schemes that have told HMRC they meet the conditions to be a ROPS and have asked to be included on the list.
There have been nine scheme names added to the list, and two scheme names removed. No amendments have been cited in this update.
A very welcome change is that HMRC now list the updates, as follows.
Schemes added
Australia
Denise Ridgway Superannuation Fund Dunne Haste Family Super Fund I McCrum SMSF Super Fund MG Moore Superannuation Fund Moss Retirement Superannuation Fund
The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals
Payroll: need to know
cipp.org.uk
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