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THE GOVERNMENT will not break even for three decades if it implements a National Pension Savings Scheme based on Lord Turner's cost assumptions, a leading insurer warns.

CIVIL servants in the department for work and pensions have little or no confidence in senior management, a staff survey reveals.

SCHEME investments could be hit by a "post-credit binge hangover" in UK equities, Aberdeen Asset Managers warns.

THE CHURCH of England paid more than £100m towards clergy pensions last year, a Church Commissioners' report reveals.

THE GOVERNMENT may be breaking European human rights laws by failing to help scheme wind-up victims, pensions adviser Ros Altmann claims.

SCHEME members should beware "seductive" offers to take tax-free lump sums from their funds, The Pensions Advisory Service claims.

SCHEME wind-up victims fear they might not be able to afford to fight the government's refusal to pay compensation through the courts.

THE GOVERNMENT'S un-funded public sector pension liabilities have reached £530bn, The Treasury has revealed.

THE UK cannot risk another pensions disaster, the Nat-ional Association of Pension Funds told MPs.

THE GOVERNMENT is "robbing Peter to pay Paul" by stopping additional state benefits to pensioners receiving money from the Financial Assistance Scheme, a trustee says.