'Toxic tangle' to lead to £41bn public sector pension cost - CPS

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Public sector pensions will cost taxpayers an additional £9bn a year due to a ‘toxic' combination of the Public Service Pensions Bill and state pension reform, a Centre for Policy Studies paper shows.

The report, A Toxic Tangle, explained the additional cost comes from a £3bn loss from public sector employers' National Insurance contributions, due to the end of contracting out, and £4bn from pub...

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