Legislation

Proposed reforms risk seriously destabilising the NHS pension scheme as high contributors leave or take early retirement, warns BMA pension committee chairman Andrew Dearden.

The European Commission has failed to make its case for a revised IORP directive and planned changes should be abandoned, the National Association of Pension Funds says.

US - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a brokerage firm and its former executive with defrauding the pension funds of five Wisconsin school districts.

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs last night published the application for fixed protection for the new lifetime allowance on pension contributions.

US - The San Diego County Employees Retirement Association (SDCER) said it will not appeal a court order to release the names and benefit amounts for retired county employees who receive more than $100,000 a year in pension benefits.

Jenna Towler looks at the consequences of the Imperial case

More than three-quarters of respondents to a consultation on a £140 a week single-tier state pension back the proposal, the government says.

The Supreme Court has dismissed the Department for Work and Pensions appeal in the long running Bridge v Yates case.

A maritime union has called on the government to broaden auto-enrolment legislation to include seafarers and offshore workers who are excluded from the law because they are not "ordinarily resident" in the UK.

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has privately attacked the government's plans to overhaul public sector pensions.