FAS payments can be increased with all of Brown cash

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Ministers could increase Financial Assistance Scheme payouts if wind-up members received all the cash promised by chancellor Gordon Brown, trade union Amicus claims.

It says tax on members’ pensions means Brown’s additional £2.1bn becomes only £1.8bn in today’s money. And the union plans to use the government’s new funding review of the FAS to argue members ...

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