Oxfordshire County Council pension fund improves following TPR action
Oxfordshire County Council has seen a "significant improvement" to its pension fund governance following action by The Pensions Regulator (TPR).
TPR intervened after no active members of the 20,000-member Local Government Pension Scheme fund received an annual benefit statement in 2014/2015 but almost every active member of the fund has now received...
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