PPF urges same-sex survivors to check entitlement after Walker ruling
The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has called on widows and widowers in same-sex marriages or civil partnerships to check whether they are receiving their full survivor entitlement from the lifeboat fund.
The call comes after the Supreme Court in July ruled an exemption in the Equality Act 2010, which meant schemes were only obliged to pay out death benefits to same-sex survivors accrued after the introduction...
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