UK - Firefighters' pensions will eat up 25% of the fire service budget by 2007 unless the scheme is radically overhauled, the government has been warned.
Sir George Bain’s independent review – set up to look at firefighters’ pay and conditions – says the unfunded scheme needs “wholesale” modernisation. It urges the government to set up a notional...
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