Law and Regulation

Former GP Noble trustee Graham Pitcher has appealed his eight year prison sentence for his role in a £52m pension fraud.

The Pensions Ombudsman (PO) has ruled that the BBC Pension Scheme's 1% cap on future pensionable salary increases was not a breach of duty.

The Treasury has spent more than £2.6m on administering the Equitable Life payments scheme (ELPS) in the three months to November, government figures have shown.

Law firm Eversheds has produced an online auto-enrolment (AE) compliance tool to provide smaller employers with tailored, fixed price legal advice on their obligations.

The pensions regulatory structure is likely to be reviewed in the next parliament, a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) report says.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has updated its scheme returns to include questions on incentive exercises including enhanced transfer values (ETVs) and pension increase exchanges (PIE).

Phillip Blond, director at think tank ResPublica, has called for all tax relief on pensions to be scrapped in favour of a simple matching savings scheme.

Pensioners would have been better off without the triple lock

Prime Minister David Cameron has said the state pension will continue to rise by at least 2.5% a year until 2020 if the Conservatives win the next election.

The Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) has urged the government to prioritise the development of flexible defined benefit (DB) models ahead of other defined ambition (DA) proposals.