PPF levies set to fall by 3% after drop in employer insolvency risk

Stephanie Baxter
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The Pension Protection Fund has revealed its levy estimate for schemes in 2016/2017 will total £615m, down from £635m the previous year.

In a consultation paper, the lifeboat fund said while it predicts funding levels to have fallen since 2015/16, they will have been offset by a lower risk of employer insolvencies. It intends to ...

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