Legislation

The method chosen by the Department for Work and Pensions for equalising guaranteed minimum pensions could be challenged, a lawyer says.

The government has today laid out how schemes should go about equalising guaranteed minimum pensions.

An innovative test case regarding the wind-up of a scheme destined for the Financial Assistance Scheme used fictional members as representative defendants to reduce costs.

The BBC Pension Scheme has been taken to the High Court over changes to member benefits it made last year, PP can reveal.

The decision to switch indexation measures for pensions uprating could be debated in parliament again after an e-petition criticising the move attracted more than 100,000 signatures.

The European Commission has confirmed its ban on gender-based annuity pricing will not apply to occupational defined benefit schemes.

The government is considering scrapping indexation for defined benefit pension schemes as part of its promise to reinvigorate occupational pensions, the pensions minister confirms.

Unions have appealed the High Court judgement which ruled the government's decision to uprate public sector pensions in line with CPI inflation was lawful.

The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act could force UK pension schemes to jettison their US investments, policy experts warn.

Labour pensions spokesman Gregg McClymont has warned Steve Webb lacks the "political weight" to drive through pension policy following the delay to auto-enrolment.