senior staff, and any fees paid by the employer to specialist pensions consultants, are a taxable benefit for senior members of staff.”
Pensions for fee-paid judicial office holders
19 June 2014
Following the uncertainty created by some recent judicial decisions, the Ministry of Justice has written to clarify future plans.
The Ministry has issued this statement to make clear how the government will take the issue of judicial pensions forward following the recent Tribunal and Supreme Court judgments.
Call for action to help pension schemes manage the DB transition
19 June 2014
The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) have issued a report calling for action in three areas to help pension schemes as they seek to manage the transition away from Defined Benefit
A NAPF report just issued calls for action in three areas:
Increased issuance of index-linked gilts Better availability of alternative inflation-matching assets Development of a framework that allows for more flexible models of DB pensions provision.
Pensions Regulator finds more poor record keeping
23 June 2014
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has widened a probe into schemes with poor record keeping practices after its research found many were failing to meet its targets.
The latest TPR research shows further poor record keeping.
Official statistics on DC pensions savings
27 June 2014
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has published some fascinating statistics and “short stories” about the volumes of DC pension savings in the UK.
This latest series of reports from the ONS provides some very useful information about the popularity of DC pension savings among different sectors of the population.
Review of occupational pension scheme benefits
30 June 2014
The Government has published statistics about the benefits from occupational pension schemes for different groups of survivors, provoking concerns from the TUC.
CIPP Policy News Journal
08/04/2015, Page 379 of 521
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