Over a quarter of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes offering survivor benefits have failed to equalise their rules for same-sex couples, a government report shows.
The Review of Survivor Benefits in Occupational Pension Schemes report found two thirds of those that had equalised only included accruals after 2005 in their calculations. According to the find...
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