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The Citizens Advice Bureau is to close its final salary scheme after its deficit doubled in three years.

It says new mortality assumptions have pushed up the deficit from £12.5m in 2004 to £25m, despite downgrading the accrual rate from 1/60ths to 1/80ths in 2005. The CAB said it would be consult...

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