The Green Party has tabled an amendment to the Pensions Bill that would grant civil partners the same right as married couples to survivors' pensions.
Green leader Caroline Lucas (pictured) proposed a clause that would remove paragraph 18 of schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010, which grants occupational schemes the right to restrict civil partner...
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