LGPS given six-week deadline for reforms

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Councils have been given just six weeks to come up with a package of reforms to slash £900m from taxpayer contributions to the Local Government Pension Scheme.

In a letter seen by PP, Department for Communities and Local Government minister Eric Pickles (pictured) asks LGPS officials to deliver proposals to save the equivalent of 3.2 percentage points in ...

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