Legislation

Sackers associate Fuat Sami looks at changes to compulsory annuitisation law

The government should retain a fixed revaluation rate of 4% calculating guaranteed minimum pensions for early leavers, the Society of Pension Consultants recommends.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has hinted at the potential development of a national transfer system to help consolidate small pension pots.

The Pension Protection Fund has finalised how it will equalise guaranteed minimum pensions and started a six-month pilot project to test its methodology.

Anna Copestake of Sackers discusses legal issues around statutory employers.

The latest Pensions Act brings measures designed to make auto-enrolment more financially palatable for employers into force.

State pension reform plans are set to heap extra cost burdens on public sector worker contributions, hitting scheme members with a "double whammy" of additional pension tax, analysts warn.

Government plans to include pension contributions when calculating workers' entitlement to tax credits risks undermining the key aims of auto-enrolment, argue Labour peers.

The Pensions Bill 2010/11 has today received royal asset becoming the Pensions Act 2011.

Business leaders have criticised ministers for allowing union leaders to "hold a gun to the government's head" over public sector pension changes.